version of the account which was recollected in the Islamic milieu. Many modern researchers of the Quran identify Dhu al-Qarnayn as Alexander the Great. Alexander...

Alexander the Great was a king of ancient Greece and Macedon who forged one of the largest empires in world history. Soon after his death, a body of legend...

found by Alexander in the Syriac legend. In the Syriac story Alexander tested the sea by sending condemned prisoners into it, while the Quran refers to...

Alexander the Great Theories about Alexander the Great in the Quran Heracles was Alexander's alleged illegitimate son. The name Ἀλέξανδρος derives from the Greek...

revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jabreel (Gabriel). The Quran has been subject to criticism both in the sense of being the subject of an interdisciplinary...

The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the...

that orally transmitted legends about Alexander the Great found their way to the Quran. In the story of Dhu al-Qarnayn, "The Two-Horned One" (chapter al-Kahf...

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah). It...

Biblioteca Ambrosiana. In 1622, the Genoese Jesuit priest Ignazio Lomellini (1560–1645) translated the Quran into Latin in the little-known Animadversiones...

Mali to Malaysia. The first appearance of Alexander traditions in Arabic literature occurs in the first extant Arabic book, the Quran, in its description...

The Quran contains references to more than fifty people and events also found in the Bible. While the stories told in each book are generally comparable...

The Gates of Alexander, also known as the Caspian Gates, are one of several mountain passes in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Persia separating the...

The Alexander Romance, once described as "antiquity's most successful novel", is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. The Romance...

mentioned by name in the Quran. He is described in Surah Al-Kahf, as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic...

The vast conquests of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great quickly inspired the formation and diffusion of legendary material about his deity, journeys...

protectors called the "Magi", stationed nearby to protect the edifice from theft or damage. Years later, in the chaos created by Alexander the Great's invasion...

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accounts (the Quran, sīrah, hadith especially) are based. The majority of classical scholars believe Muhammad existed as a historical figure. The earliest...

about Alexander the Great called Dhul-Qarnayn ("he of the two horns") in the Quran. The story of Dhul-Qarnayn has its origins in legends of Alexander...

the latter of whom Jesus is reported in the Quran to have prophesied by using the name Ahmad. There are a variety of interpretations in Islam about Jesus...

related to Gog and Magog. Gog (film) Alexander the Great in the Quran Cyrus the Great in the Quran Eschatology Hag and Mag in Mandaeism Magog Sasanian defense...

of translations of the Quran. This is a sub-article to Qur'an translations. Salman the Persian translated the first chapter of the Qur'an, Al-Fatiha,...

Q15:19 [Quran 15:19], Q20:53 [Quran 20:53], Q50:7 [Quran 50:7], and Q51:48 [Quran 51:48]. Tabatabaʾi, Mohammad Ali; Mirsadri, Saida (May 26, 2016). "The Qurʾānic...

used in the Quran itself. There are two different theories about this term and its formation." "Tafsīr". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original...

Quranic studies is the academic application of a diverse set of disciplines to study the Quran (including its exegesis and historical reception), drawing...

Ewald. He is one of the founders of the field of Quranic studies, especially through his foundational work titled the History of the Quran. His research interests...

origin story "in most of its details", and accepted the reliability of its traditional literary sources – tafsir (commentaries on the Quran), hadith (accounts...

the annal stone of the king that foreigners from Canaan were employed. A number of pseudoscientific theories have been put forth to explain how the pyramids...

are often held in urban areas with many Muslim immigrants, initially in Denmark. During the demonstrations, he has called the Quran "the big book of whores"...

in or of the world as to be beyond all forms of human thought and expression. The briefest and the most comprehensive description of God in the Quran...