Cyrus Kingship

Cyrus treated his kingship with the Babylonians as a union on behalf of the chief city god of Babylon who was known as Marduk. Cyrus believed that his position as king was destined by Marduk, and that according to the Cyrus cylinder “[Marduk] searched everywhere and then he took a righteous king, his favourite, by the hand, he called out his name. Cyrus, King of Ansan, he pronounced his name to be king all over the world”. The Cyrus Cylinder also states that Marduk encouraged Cyrus to command his army to march into Babylon with no death, specifically that “[Cyrus’s] vast troops were marching peaceably in Babylon, and the whole of Akkad had nothing to fear”. When Cyrus and his army entered, the people of Babylonia embraced Cyrus as their new King and it was their chance of a new life that was previously mistreated by Nabonidus, who during his reign destroyed temples in Babylonia and other Mesopotamian areas like Elam and what would eventually be Assyria. When Cyrus conquered …show more content…
Zolqarnain does not have a name, but he is believed to have been a great king that conquered a large part of Earth. He specifically travels to where the sun set, then goes east, and then goes north to where he builds a wall against God-Magog (Kaht Surah 18:83-94). There is a theory that Cyrus is Zolqarnain that was brought to light by Molana Abolkaram (India’s minister of culture). The first reason as to why Abolkaram claims that Cyrus is Zolqarnain is because Zolqarnain is a monotheist. The religion of Cyrus is still in debate however this theory stands with Cyrus being Zoroastrian which means he also did believe in one powerful God. The second reason is that Zolqarnanin and Cyrus preformed similar actions such as both building a large wall (though Zolqarnanain did it to block off a group of people which the Quran calls the Gog-Magog tribe). Cyrus in fact did build a large wall in Daryal Pass but for unknown