Humbly introduced as the simple desire to draw attention to an important, but unfortunately hitherto rather neglected text, C. Melville’s contribution is an excellent and in depth state of the art account of what has been done on Ibn Ḥusām’s Ḫāvarān-nāme, including the available manuscripts and major studies. In addition Melville suggests very convincingly the roads to be taken for anyone venturing further into this 15th century epic depicting the feats of a mythical ‘Alī. In particular the author points out the textual and pictorial analogies to the Šāh-nāme. It is hoped that this generous invitation finds someone to take up its threads.