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{{PortalArticle|image=Alexander Horns of Ammon.jpg|title=Dhul-Qarnayn and the Alexander Romance|summary=Alexander the Great shows up in the Qur'an, not as the Alexander of history from the Anabasis, but rather the fictional Christian-before-Christ of the Christian Alexander romances.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Alexander Horns of Ammon.jpg|title=Dhul-Qarnayn and the Alexander Romance|summary=Alexander the Great shows up in the Qur'an, not as the Alexander of history from the Anabasis, but rather the fictional Christian-before-Christ of the Christian Alexander romances.|description=}} | ||
{{PortalArticle|image=Seven Sleepers.jpg|title=Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran|summary=The Christian martyr tale of the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, Christian youths who escaped persecution by the pagan Roman emperor Diocletian by falling asleep in a cave for hundreds of years, is recast in the Qur'an as proof of Allah's divine power.|description=}} | |||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title=Parallelism: Introduction|summary=This series of articles illustrates how the Qur'an took stories from a wide variety of extra-biblical literature from the ancient middle east.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title=Parallelism: Introduction|summary=This series of articles illustrates how the Qur'an took stories from a wide variety of extra-biblical literature from the ancient middle east.|description=}} |