What do Muslims today believe about the End?
Modern Muslim apocalyptic literature is highly popular and derives its sources from three different influences. The first source is the framework provided by the Koran and classical Muslim literature. The second source is anti-Semitic conspiracy theories based on The Protocols of Elders of Zion, [a spurious Russia document]. The third source is Evangelical Protestant expectations of the return of Christ and the End of World. The “Hal Lindsey” of modern Muslim apocalyptic is an Egyptian named Said Ayyub. In 1987 he wrote The Anti-Christ. This was an extremely powerful political and social apologetic for Muslims, identifying the United States as the Great Satan. He claimed to interpret all of the events of the modern world as if they were predicted in either the Muslim traditions or the Bible. He was quite successful; he literally created modern manifestation of the End-Times genre in Islam. Numerous Muslim intellectuals have tried to flesh out the details of his framework or update it a
