Early exegetical ethnography: Muqātil ibn Sulaymān, a 2nd/8th-century exegete, quotes ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as saying: The Turks are a raiding party of Gog and Magog that set out to plunder people, but Dhū l-Qarnayn built the wall to keep [God and Magog] out, so they remained...

Muqātil said: They were only called Turks (al-turk) because they were left (turikū) behind on the other side of the wall. archive.org/details/03-567

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