(Detailed Structure in Titles)

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAMIC END-TIMES & ESCHATOLOGY

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├── PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND METHOD (Chapters 1–5)

│ ├── Chapter 1: The Meaning of Eschatology in Islam

│ ├── Chapter 2: Time, Prophecy, and the Limits of Human Knowledge

│ ├── Chapter 3: How Hadith Evidence Should Be Read

│ ├── Chapter 4: Israelite Reports and Narrative Borrowing (Isra'iliyyat)

│ └── Chapter 5: The Difference Between Sign, Interpretation, and Prediction

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├── PART II: THE SIGNS OF THE HOUR (Chapters 6–14)

│ ├── Chapter 6: Early and Lesser Signs of the Hour

│ ├── Chapter 7: The Concept of Fitan (Tribulations and Civil Strife)

│ ├── Chapter 8: The Dajjal: Identity and Function

│ ├── Chapter 9: The Dajjal's Extraordinary Trials

│ ├── Chapter 10: Protection from the Dajjal's Fitnah

│ ├── Chapter 11: The Mahdi in Islamic Eschatological Tradition

│ ├── Chapter 12: Jesus, Son of Mary, in Islamic Eschatology

│ ├── Chapter 13: Gog and Magog (Ya'juj and Ma'juj)

│ └── Chapter 14: The Great Release and Its Aftermath

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├── PART III: THE MAJOR FIGURES AND TURNING POINTS (Chapters 15–21)

│ ├── Chapter 15: The Ten Major Signs (Canonical List)

│ ├── Chapter 16: The Smoke (Al-Dukhan)

│ ├── Chapter 17: The Beast of the Earth (Dabbat al-Ard)

│ ├── Chapter 18: The Sun Rising from the West

│ ├── Chapter 19: The Three Great Earth-Sinkings

│ ├── Chapter 20: The Fire of Aden and the Final Gathering

│ └── Chapter 21: The Finality of the Hour and Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah)

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├── PART IV: GEOGRAPHY, CONFLICT, AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION (Chapters 22–30)

│ ├── Chapter 22: The Levant, Jerusalem, and Sacred Geography

│ ├── Chapter 23: The Romans, the Great Truce, and Dabiq

│ ├── Chapter 24: Constantinople in Prophetic Literature

│ ├── Chapter 25: Great Battles and the Language of Malahim

│ ├── Chapter 26: Political Astrology and the Projection Problem

│ ├── Chapter 27: Why Prophecy Claims Recur in Every Generation

│ ├── Chapter 28: Classical Muslim Scholars and the Literature of Fitan

│ ├── Chapter 29: Authentic, Weak, and Disputed Reports

│ └── Chapter 30: A Practical Chronological Framework

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├── PART V: BIBLICAL AND COMPARATIVE APOCALYPTIC TRADITIONS (Chapters 31–38)

│ ├── Chapter 31: The Hebrew Bible and the Idea of the Day of the Lord

│ ├── Chapter 32: Daniel and Apocalyptic Symbolism

│ ├── Chapter 33: Ezekiel and Gog of Magog

│ ├── Chapter 34: The Olivet Discourse (Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke)

│ ├── Chapter 35: The Book of Revelation and the Apocalyptic Imagination

│ ├── Chapter 36: The Four Horsemen, 666, and the Antichrist Tradition

│ ├── Chapter 37: Armageddon and the Geography of Final Conflict

│ └── Chapter 38: Islam and Biblical Traditions: Convergences and Differences

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├── PART VI: CRITICAL READING, MODERN SPECULATION, AND PRACTICAL ETHICS (Chapters 39–42)

│ ├── Chapter 39: Common Modern Misreadings and the "Headline Method"

│ ├── Chapter 40: Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the End Times

│ ├── Chapter 41: A Responsible Seven-Step Verification Framework for Future Readers

│ └── Chapter 42: The Ethical Meaning of End-Time Knowledge

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└── APPENDICES (A–D)

├── Appendix A: Major Signs Reference Table

├── Appendix B: Source Hierarchy for Readers (From Qur'an to Modern Speculation)

├── Appendix C: Comprehensive Glossary of Te

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└── Appendix D: Bibliography & Verification Research Guide