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 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 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...

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...

Amatul Rahman Omar, "The Holy Qurʻan – English", The Holy Qurʻan – English, 1990. ISBN 0-9766972-3-8 Quran (2007). The Sublime Qurʻan: Laleh Bakhtiar: 9781567447507:...

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...

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

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...

Quran 7:73 Quran 19:41 Quran 9:70 Quran 2:124 Quran 22:43 Quran 87:19 Quran 6:86 Quran 37:133 Quran 7:80 Quran 19:54 Quran 19:49 Quran 4:89 Quran 40:34 Encyclopedia...

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...

by using the name Ahmad. There are a variety of interpretations in Islam about Jesus Christ. Mainstream interpretations of the Quran lack the Christian...

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...

traditional accounts (the Quran, sīrah, hadith especially) are based. The earliest Muslim source of information for the life of Muhammad, the Quran, gives very...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of the Christian Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, U.S., announced he would burn 200 Qurans on...

least by the fact that the Quran and Sunna, the two most important sources in the area of Islam for the great tradition, clearly affirm the existence...

described in the Quran as follows: "[God is] the Creator of the heaven and the Earth. He has made for you from yourselves mates, and among the cattle mates;...

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...

the most developed creation accounts in the Quran: Say: “Do you indeed disbelieve in the One who created the earth in two days [bi-lladhī khalaqa l-’arḍa...