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...

commentators such as Maududi leaning in favour of identifying him as Cyrus the Great. The story of Dhu al-Qarnayn is related in Quran 18, al-Kahf, revealed to Muhammad...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 from God. It is organized in...

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