Hamzanama
The Hamzanama (Persian/Urdu: "Hamzenâme", Epic of Hamza) or Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (Persian/Urdu: "Dâstâne Amir Hamze", "Adventures of Amir Hamza") narrates the legendary exploits of Amir Hamza, or Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad. Most of the stories are extremely fanciful, "a continuous series of romantic interludes, threatening events, narrow escapes, and violent acts". The "Hamzanama" chronicles the fantastic adventures of Hamza as he and his band of heroes fight against the enemies of Islam. 

The stories, from a long-established oral tradition, were written down in Persian, the language of the courts of the Persianate world, in multiple volumes presumably in the era of Mahmud of Ghazni. In the West the work is best known for the enormous illustrated manuscript commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in about 1562. The text augmented the story, as traditionally told in dastan performances. The dastan (storytelling tradition) about Amir Hamza persists far and wide up to Bengal and Arakan (Burma), as the Mughals controlled those territories. The longest version of the "Hamzanama" exists in Urdu and contains 46 volumes in approximately over 45,000 pages.
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