Talk:Alexander Romance

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Be kind of nice if this sited a source, wouldn't it?

Or even if it cited one. 69.216.117.174 07:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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I have modified this page, moved it, and plastered it with redlinks. All the redlinks concern topics about which there is more than sufficient secondary literature for decent encyclopaedia articles. They ought to be created eventually. Note de:Alexanderlied and es:Libro de Alexandre. Srnec (talk) 05:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC) (I will work on this as I can, to remove redlinks etc.)

Capitalisation, italics, and issues of "genre"

I argue that "Alexander romance" is a genre not a single work. The story carried by each of the many, many versions is hardly the same! They are different stories. "Alexander romance" is like "Arthurian romance". Both the Britannica and the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance agree with me, on my reading and on capitalisation. The Medieval Alexander Project seems to also (see this). I have also come across plenty of uses of the indefinite article before "Alexander romance(s)". All this indicates to me that italics and capitalisation convey the wrong message. Srnec (talk) 21:41, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Here is a an example of a variety of approaches taken to this: The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East, with papers by many different scholars. It seems to be quite usual to capitalize both words, and quite frequently it is italicized as well. A phrase such as "the Alexander romance tradition" is one of the few examples corresponding to the current Wikipedia title. I would vote for at least capitalizing both words: Alexander Romance. --Robert.Allen (talk) 05:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Robert.Allen: Old news now, but I have reverted myself and tried to clarify in the lead. Srnec (talk) 01:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Alexander Romance and the Quran

Someone (probably a muslim writer) wrote the suggestion that the quranic version must be independent from the Alexander Romance because this shows knowledge of later incidences suggesting that the quranic version is older. This is wrong. I deleted this sentences and inserted the corresponding parts from here, providing facts that the opposite is much more likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great_in_the_Qur'an — Preceding unsigned comment added by George Greed (talk • contribs) 08:25, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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Quran 18:86 "sun setting in a spring of murky water" likely originated from this book

Should be implemented in the article.

80.131.50.210 (talk) 03:03, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

The Syriac Alexander Legend and the Quran

“The Syriac Alexander Legend has been found to closely resemble the story of Dhu al-Qarnayn in the Qur'an (see Alexander the Great in the Quran).“

I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but from reading the article that Wikipedia linked here, I could not find anything about the Syriac Alexander Legend demonstrating comparison to the Quran besides one paragraph that mentions scholarship stating the exact opposite of what the quote claims. Could someone clarify? Mohalibou (talk) 05:30, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the other article shows clear signs of POV editing. It does, however, show the resemblance of the Syriac legend to the Quranic version and admit that some scholars see the latter as deriving from the former. Srnec (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2021 (UTC)