Most Western and traditional Muslim scholars generally identify Alexander the Great as Dhul-Qarnayn, (Lit.: "He of the Two Horns"),[3][4] this ultimately derive from the image of Alexander wearing the horns of the ram-god Zeus-Ammon, as popularised on coins throughout the Hellenistic Near East.[5] and Alexander is mentioned by name in the Deuterocanonical Book of 1 Maccabees.[6]
Islamic tradition holds both Amram and Joachim being named the same just like Joachim's daughter Mary, the mother of Jesus, ("Mariam") and Amram's daughter Miriam, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name probably as a play on the sharing of names and even calls Mary the sister of Aaron, Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit, Although this is disputed.
a theory that identifies Cyrus with the Dhul-Qarnayn, a figure mentioned in verses 18:83-98 of the Quran, with Cyrus the Great.[7](He is most commonly identified with Alexander the Great).[8]Proposed by the German philologist G. M. Redslob in 1855, it failed to gain followers among Western scholars,[9]
he is not universally identified with Enoch, many Muslim scholars of the classical and medieval periods also held that Idris and Hermes Trismegistus were the same person.[10][11]
Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram being named the same just like Joachim's daughter Mary, the mother of Jesus, ("Mariam") and Amram's daughter Miriam, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram probably as a play on the sharing of names and even calls Mary the sister of Aaron,[12] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit, Although Many people see this as a mistake, This question was actually reported to have been put across to Muhammed during his time and he replied: "The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them".[13] Although there is no single evidence that this practice happened in the 1st century BC.[14]
ازر (Tāraḥ/Tārakḥ among Arab genealogists and Shiites)
Terah
There is a disagreement with regards to Āzar being Abraham's biological father or uncle.[15][16][17] It is claimed that Āzar is derived from Syriac Āthar (See Church History (Eusebius)[citation needed ]), which is derived from Hebrew Táraḥ, Thara or Zarah.
↑A-Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism, Brannon M. Wheeler, Hud
↑البداية والنهاية لإبن كثير، الجزء الاولانى (قصة هود عليه السلام)
↑Stoneman, Richard (2003). "Alexander the Great in Arabic Tradition". In Panayotakis, Stelios; Zimmerman, Maaike; Keulen, Wytse (eds.). The Ancient Novel and Beyond. Brill Academic Publishers NV. ISBN978-90-04-12999-3.
↑All of Chapter 1, verses 1–7 was about Alexander and this serves as an introduction of the book. This explains how the Greek influence reached the Land of Israel at that time.
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