This Al Arabiya story doesn’t say so, but Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari is reflecting Qur’anic teaching. The Qur’an depicts Dhu’l-Qarneyn, a mysterious character whom most Muslims identify with Alexander the Great, as traveling until he reaches “the setting-place of the Sun,” where he sees it setting in a “muddy spring.” Then he travels to the “rising-place […]