Alexander the Great in the Quran into Arabic. The Greek work "Thesaurus Alexandri" was attributed to Hermes (the great messenger of the gods in Greek mythology) and similarly contained supposed letters from Aristotle addressed to Alexander. A more direct Arabic translation of the "Alexander romance," called "Sirat Al-Iskandar", was discovered in Constantinople, at the Hagia Sophia, and is dated to the 13th century. This version includes the letter from Alexander to his mother about his travels in India and at the end of the World. It also includes features which occur exclusively in the Syriac version. The Arabic legend also retains certain pagan elements of the
The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger was an early 20th-century political and literary magazine by and for African-American people in the United States. It was important to the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and initially promoted a socialist political view. "The Messenger" was co-founded in New York City by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in August 1917. After 1920, "The Messenger" featured more articles about black culture and began to publish rising black writers. It became a kind of literary magazine (like "The Little Review", the revived "The Dial", and "The Liberator"), contributing to the Harlem Renaissance. It was notable