An interesting discussion on the Quran’s alleged borrowing from the Syriac legend of Alexander the Great.
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Introduction
In 2007, an article appeared in Gabriel Said Reynold’s ‘The Qurʾān in its Historical Context’ titled ‘The Alexander Legend in the Qurʾān 18:83-102’, authored by Kevin Van Bladel. This article has proven to be a substantial contribution to understanding the background of the Dhū-lQarnayn pericope in sūrat al-Kahf, or ‘The Cave’. The primary thesis of Van Bladel’s paper is that the story of Dhū-lQarnayn essentially depends on the ‘Neṣḥānā d-Aleksandrūs’, otherwise referred to as the “Syriac Legend of Alexander1” in contemporary scholarship.
The Syriac Legend dates approximately to 630 A.D2, and was brought to light by the orientalist E.A Wallis Budge in 1889, apparently being a work appended to the Syriac edition of Pseudo-Callisthenes. In his book titled “The History of Alexander the Great…
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@ QB
But, but QB the passive-aggressive kuffar like Marc C. said that because some random professor made a paper ignoring all Islamic writings concerning a text (like the easiest refutation being the Syriac legend is dated 630CE while Kahf is a Meccan Surah) it MUST be true. How could a fancy professor get so many things wrong?
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Salam brother,
Thank you for your article.
Have you seen this analysis?
http://mustafa-apologist.blogspot.com/2019/04/critique-of-kevin-van-bladels-alexander.html
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@ Ihsan
Yes, I read this analysis before. I very much enjoyed it and it shows the bias ness these kuffar have by not even considering the Quran could have just affected the Syrian legend. These people are a joke and are hoping to just machine gun anything hoping it sticks. Like for example I had this one kaffir quote this other orientalist trying to argue Surah Nasir was really a Makki Surah and we just straight up lied because it “didn’t fit the criteria they made for Madini suwar” all I did was point out the word “fath” has a military connotation and so it clearly indicates is Madini and all they could say was”well so and so orientalist said it must not be so there”.
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I will check this out.
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