Table of Contents

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog - 2 Contents - 8 Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early ModernWestern Tradition - 10 Gog, Magog, Dogheads and other monstersin the Byzantine World - 24 Dogfaces, Snake-tongues,and the Wall against Gog and Magog - 38 Gog and Magog in Modern Garb - 54 Is my firewall secure? Gog and Magog on the Internet - 70 A note on Gog and Magog in Tashelhiyt Berber of South Morocco - 82 Unfathomable Evil: The Presentation of Gog and Magog in Persian Literature - 92 Gog and Magog in Contemporary Shiite Quran commentaries - 112 Juja-Makjuja as the Antichrist in a Javanese End-of-Time Narrative - 124 Works cited - 149 CONTRIBUTORS - 154

About the Author

A.A. Seyed-Gohrab is track leader of the Persian studies programme at Leiden University and Vice-Chairman of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Faustina Doufikar-Aerts is researcher at the Leiden School of Middle Eastern Studies. Sen McGlinn is an independent scholar who writes and translates in the fields of Bahai studies, Iranian studies and Islamic studies.