Note 444 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Iskandariyah, the city of Iskandar or Alexander the Great, whose “Soma” was attractive to the Greeks as the corpse of the Prophet Daniel afterwards was to the Moslems. The choice of site, then occupied only by the pauper village of Rhacotis, is one proof of many that the Macedonian conqueror had the inspiration of genius.