Dhū al-Qarnayn

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A person

Names

Arabic: الإسكندر = al-Iskandar 1
Arabic: أشك بن سلوكوس = Ashik b. Salūkūs 2
Arabic: ذو القرنين = Dhū l-Qarnayn 3-4

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-3	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.4	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 463 [Arabic].
2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 184 [Arabic].
3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 184، 451 (2) 125، 367، 441، 519 (3) 197، 198، 208، 246 (4) 40 (5) 80، 113، 357 [Arabic].
4Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 311, 314 [Arabic].
- Dhū al-Qarnayn: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 315, 318 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Dhū al-Qarnayn” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/8618.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan

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