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Quran: Ancient texts
Ancient Texts pages that draw on Quran, each with the sources shown. Start with Dhul-Qarnayn, Harut and Marut, Iblis, Idris.
People · QuranDhul-QarnaynThe Quran describes a ruler who found the sun setting in a muddy spring, then sealed a people behind a wall. It even gives the recipe: iron heated with bellows until it glows, then covered with poured molten copper. Who was the Two-Horned One, and what was he locking away?Beings · QuranHarut and MarutTwo angels taught magic in Babylon, but only after warning every student, "We are only a temptation." The Quran's verse is short; later commentators added a woman who tricked them, and in one legend she used a secret word to fly to heaven and became the planet Venus. Which parts are scripture?Beings · QuranIblisHe refused a direct command, and his reason was a claim about materials: fire beats mud. The Quran tells the story seven times, then adds a puzzle in Surah 18:50, where he is called one of the jinn. How was a jinni standing among the angels when the order came?People · QuranIdrisThe Quran mentions him twice and gives one striking line: he was raised "to high station." From that sliver, tradition built a man identified with Enoch, and medieval Arabic writers said he carved the sciences into Egyptian temple walls to survive the Flood. How did a one-line prophet become Hermes?People · QuranUzair and the hundred-year sleep (Surah 2:259)A man passes a ruined town and wonders how it could ever live again. He is made to die for a hundred years, then wakes to find his food still fresh while his donkey is only bones; then the bones are rebuilt in front of him. Who was he, and why did time treat him so unevenly?
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