Cyrus the Great in the Quran is a theory that identifies Dhul-Qarnayn, a figure mentioned in verses 18:83-98 of the Quran, with Cyrus the Great.[1] (He is most commonly identified with Alexander the Great).[2] Proposed by the German philologist G. M. Redslob in 1855, it failed to gain followers among Western scholars,[3] but was taken up by several traditional Indian, Pakistani and Iranian scholars and commentators, including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Israr Ahmed, Maududi, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, Allameh Tabatabaei (in Tafsir al-Mizan)[4], Naser Makarem Shirazi (et al., in Tafsir Nemooneh)[5] and Muhammad Ali.[6]