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Several parables or pieces of narrative appear in the Quran, often with similar motifs to Jewish and Christian traditions which may predate those in the Quran. [1]Some included legends are the story of Cain and Abel (sura al-Ma'idah, of Abraham destroying idols (sura al-Anbiya 57), of Solomon's conversation with an ant (sura an-Naml), the story of the Seven Sleepers, and several stories about ...
Khidr (Arabic: ٱلْخَضِر), described but not mentioned by name in the Quran Shamʿūn (Arabic: شَمْعُون ٱبْن حَمُّون, Peter , apostle of Jesus Christ ( 'Isa ibn Maryam ) Contemporaries, relatives or followers of Prophets
Appears in the legend of Solomon. (Genie or demon) Salsa'il, guardian angel of the fourth heaven. [39] (Angel) Shamka'il, an angel of the sixth heaven. (Angel) Sharahil, angel responsible for the day and the sun, Sarahiel. (Angel) Shayateen, evil spirits, tempting humans into sin. Usually the offspring of Iblis, sometimes spirits cast out of ...
In the Syriac story Alexander tested the sea by sending condemned prisoners into it, while the Quran refers to this as an administration of justice. In the East both the Syrian legend and the Quran, according to Ernst, have Alexander/ Dhu al-Qarnayn find a people who live so close to the rising sun that they have no protection from its heat. [32]
The two types of myth and legends that make up Islamic mythology are cosmogony and eschatology. Cosmogony is a part of cosmogonic and cosmological myths, which are myths that deal in matters of the creation and origins of the universe, and more specially, the world. [3]
[23] [22] The Syriac Legend appears in each of the six manuscripts containing the Syriac version of the Alexander Romance [22]: 50 A key manuscript witness is British Library Add. 25875 (copied 1708–1709), which is the oldest and one of the five used by E.A.W. Budge, who used it as the base text for his critical edition of the Syriac text and ...
Commentary on the figure of Dhu al-Qarnayn by Christians is found in glosses on the Quran. For example, glosses on Quran 18:83–102 in Latin translations of the Quran demonstrates an unambiguous familiarity among Christian commenters that the passage they were reading was a story about the two-horned Alexander the Great. [27]
The Hadīth Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (or Hadith Dhulqarnayn), also known as the Leyenda de Alejandro, is an anonymous Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great (whom it identifies as Dhu al-Qarnayn, a figure known from the eighteenth chapter of the Quran). It dates to the 15th century. [1]