Islam
Main article: Masih ad-Dajjal See also: Masih and List of Mahdi claimantsal-Masih ad-Dajjal, Arabic for "the false messiah", is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology, directly comparable to the figures of the Antichrist and Armilus in Christian and Jewish eschatology, respectively. He is to appear, pretending to be Masih (i.e. the Messiah), at a time in the future before Yawm al-Qiyamah (Judgment Day).
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“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
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—Bernard Lewis, U.S. Middle Eastern specialist. Islam and the West, ch. 8, Oxford University Press (1993)
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