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Islamic apocalypse (Essay (Arabs (Circa 670 A.D. the Muslims managed to…

- - - - 6 portents
        
        Proleferation of wealth
        
        Civil War
        
        Truce with and betrayal by Byzantium
        
        The Byzantines would prepare for 9 months, have 96,000 men, and would amass in Damascus
        , the Muslims would amass in Jerusalem.
        
        Bashear, 3-4
        
        Death of the prophet
        
        Spread of death (plague?)
        
        Conquest of Jerusalem
      - "Muslim belief throughout the first century that the eventual conquest of Constantinople would be the last major eschatological event before the end of the world seems indeed to have been so strong that almost every tradition which spoke about the Byzantine malhama ended with the prophecy that the city would be conquered." Bashear, 19
        
        "The issue of Muslim-Byzantine peace pacts and then treachery by the latter has figured centrally in the apocalyptic material..." Bashear 28
  - - - "...according to the plain logic of the Dajjal traditions, the end should have come in approximately 1460 (seven years after the fall of the city)." Cook, 20
        
        However, according to Gamal al-Din the reason that judgement day has not arrived is because the Ottomans were not entirely Muslim and were weak in their faith. Cook, 21
      - Ottoman conquest of the city was not out of religious dedication but rather pragmatic strategy; it was deemed as necessary to subdue the lone city that could still insight Christians of the Balkans to face the Turks. Philippedes 4
    - - In the early days of the Ottomans they adopted the Islamic epic poetry of Anatolia, which typically entailed combat with and triumph over the Byzantines, and adapted it for a Turkic population as opposed as opposed to an broader Islamic audience. Isom-Vahaaren & Schull, 31