The Ayina-i Iskandari (Alexandrine Mirror) of Ahli Shirazi is a Persian courtly version of the Alexander Romance literature, completed in 1543.
It is roughly 2,300 verses in length and was dedicated to Tahmasp I, the mid-16th century Safavid Shah of Iran.
The second section is devoted to describing how Alexander protected the arts (including engineering, architecture, painting, and so on), erects a barrier against Gog and Magog (in the Islamic tradition of corresponding Alexander with the figure named Dhu al-Qarnayn in the Quran), builds a fortified city and oversees a contest between Chinese and Rumi painters.
The painting competition is a version of an earlier story that first appears in an Arabic work known as the Ehyâ’ olum al-din by Al-Ghazali (d. 1111).
In the final section, Alexander destroys pagan Greece and only Plato, Heraclides, and the physician Hippocrates survive.