The Qissat Dhi'l-Qarnayn (Arabic: قصة ذي القرنين Qiṣṣat Ḏī l-Qarnayn, lit. 'Story of Dhu'l-Qarnayn') is a Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great preserved in two fourteenth-century manuscripts in Madrid and likely dates as a ninth-century Arabic translation of the Syriac Alexander Romance produced in al-Andalus. In this respect, it is similar to the Hadith Dhi'l-Qarnayn and is an example of the literary genre of Qisas al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets).
The Qissat Dhi'l-Qarnayn (Arabic: قصة ذي القرنين Qiṣṣat Ḏī l-Qarnayn, lit. 'Story of Dhu'l-Qarnayn') is a Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great preserved in two fourteenth-century manuscripts in Madrid and likely dates as a ninth-century Arabic translation of the Syriac Alexander Romance produced in al-Andalus. In this respect, it is similar to the Hadith Dhi'l-Qarnayn and is an example of the literary genre of Qisas al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets).
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