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Building a wall against Yājūj and Mājūj, painting by Qāsim, 16th century; in the British Library (MS. Add 5600, folio 372)
Building a wall against Yājūj and Mājūj, painting by Qāsim, 16th century; in the British Library (MS. Add 5600, folio 372)

Yājūj and Mājūj

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Yājūj and Mājūj, in Islamic eschatology, two hostile, corrupt forces that will ravage the earth before the end of the world. They are the counterparts of Gog and Magog in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament. They are mentioned in suras 18 and 21 of the Qurʾān, the holy book of Islam. According to the Qurʾān, a certain people terrorized by Yājūj and Mājūj induced Dhū al-Qarnayn (a figure identified by some scholars as Alexander the Great and by others as either of the Persian kings Cyrus II or Darius I) to construct between Yājūj and Mājūj a ...(100 of 295 words)

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