Is Ancient Greece a Western Civilization?

well there will be at least one name shows their religions.

No, there are many muslims in Turkey without traditional muslim names. But you seem to be immune to truth.

Also, there are many Turkish muslims called Iskender. Ottoman historians believed that Alexander was a 'believer'. They held that 4 people invaded the whole world in the past and 2 were believers,  and 2 were non-believers. The believers were Solomon (I think) and Alexander, and the others were Nebuchadnezzar and Sargon (I am not sure about this one).

Although some might disagree, I believe that we cannot characterise the Greek civilisation as a Western civilisation for the mere fact that the Greek civilisation existed long before any such definition arose.
But I will put something else on the table. Let us look at the spatial definition of Western and Eastern civilisations. If Europe etc lie on the west side and Asia lies due east, what is in the middle? Answer: Greece. So, I would comfortably assert that the Greek civilisation was the one that defined both, by merely lyiong in the middle and defining east and west. One could argue that Greek civilisation affected both sides, and that is most probably the case indeed.
Now, all of what I have said is only speculation and I do not expect anyone to take it for face value, but I think it might give a little different perspective to our nice little chat here.

Du Al-Karneyn (as we say Zulkarneyn) is morely like a mythic figure in Kur'an than a prophet. But I think his nickname was to describe a true historical person.

We know that Zulkarneyn has dealed with Ya-Juj and Ma-Juj (Gog and Ma-Gog), and we also know that he imprisoned them by a metal fort, wall, mountains. Gog magog are said to have Asiatic features, and that story doesnt fit the stories of Alexander or Cyrus at all. So who he was is not that clear at all.

About the original discussion, I dont think Ancient Greek civilization beloged to the middle of east and west. There wasnt any west one at all before Greeks. In fact, all primary, earlier civilizations belonged to middle east, Lands from Eastern Mediterranean to Indus river in the east (of course without Chinese civ.). Because Greek civilization inherited its elements from middle East, Aegean sea people and ancient Anatolians (Etruscans), they belonged to middle East. The western civilization was also created by the middle Eastern influences.

Nebuchadnezzar and Namrod as the Bad once.

Nabucadnezzar was the bad one, yes, but I've a question, is he also mentioned as the bad one in Old Testament?

Originally posted by Menippos Although some might disagree, I believe that we cannot characterise the Greek civilisation as a Western civilisation for the mere fact that the Greek civilisation existed long before any such definition arose.

the point is not what definitions existed at the time but what definition is now as we use it today.  frankly, as I stated earlier, the question itself is rather jejeune.