Talk:Alexander/@comment-60.48.48.215-20151013164501/@comment-36.79.145.67-20160126081954

Iskandar is derived from ancient persian calling him Eskandar de madequini, meaning Alexander from Macedonia, eventually arab languange starting to replace ancient persian and his name is known as Iskandar, more spesifically Al-Iskandar Al-Akhbar (Alexander the Great)

Most scholar who claim Iskandar and Alexander are different person comes from some moslem school of thought, where some believe that Iskandar or Alexander are the Dhulkarnain (not sure how to spell it) depicted in Qur'an, while some scholar reject that notion and said its different people.. my friend once rant all about it when discussing Zero so I'm kinda knowledgeable after some research to shut him up