The scholars of the East agree that Dhul-Qarnayn, mentioned in the noble verse, is different from the Greek Alexander. The former is older than the latter, and it is he who is said to have been a prophet, who built the dam of Gog and Magog, and who searched in vain for the water of life, which Al-Khidr, peace be upon him, found and therefore is still alive. As for the latter, he is called the Roman or Greek Alexander, meaning the Hellenic, because the ancient Hellenes were called Greeks, and the later ones are known by the name of Romans. As for the Franks, they only believe in the existence of Alexander the Great, son of Philip, or son of Philippos of Macedon, and they consider him to be the same one mentioned in Arabic histories as Dhul-Qarnayn. They attribute to him all the other wonders told about him, such as the dam of Gog and Magog and the like, except that they do not believe in what does not conform to custom. In any case, the words of the scholars and what the Franks have narrated agree that Alexandria is attributed to the Roman Alexander. The names of places called Alexandria have already been mentioned in the dictionary, and it is not from the Roman Alexander that the town of Arna'ut, called Alexandria, is attributed, but rather it is attributed to Iskandar Bey. Some have said that the city of Alexandria in Egypt was called Fison, with a damma on the qaf and a sukun on the ya, about thirty years before the appearance of Jesus, peace be upon him, before Alexander built it. The Franks said it was called Neuf-ton. It is said that when it was conquered by Islam, it was sometimes under the rule of the Romans and sometimes under the rule of the Romans or Greeks. Amr ibn al-As conquered it by order of Umar ibn al-Khattab. When Amr ibn al-As conquered it, he wrote to Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, that he found there four thousand palaces, four thousand donkeys, forty thousand Jews paying jizya, four hundred soldiers, and twelve thousand grocers and greengrocers. Perhaps this is an exaggeration.