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The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great (Sikandar): A Scholarly Account by Dr. Rahul Kharat An Historical Essay on the Life, Conquests, and Legacy of Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BCE) Introduction Few figures in the annals of human history have generated as much fascination, controversy, and mythology as Alexander III of Macedon, universally remembered as Alexander the Great, and known across the Islamic and South Asian world by the honorific Sikandar-e-Azam . In a reign of barely thirteen years (336–323 BCE), Alexander transformed a modest, if formidable, Macedonian kingdom on the northern fringe of the Greek world into an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River, from the steppes of Central Asia to the deserts of Egypt. He toppled the mighty Achaemenid Persian Empire, the greatest power the ancient world had yet known, founded more than twenty cities that bore his name, and carried Hellenic language, art, and administrative practice into the heart of Asia ...