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This paper studies the image of the Muslims as the Other and their iconography as Antichristian evil in Sir John Mandeville’s Travels. In the formation of the image, Mandeville seems to draw on the medieval apocalyptic view of history and the Antichrist rhetoric and discourse that accompanied it. The Travels looks back to the past and forward to the future with a unified view of history that tries to discern how the agents of evil work out God’s plan. Mandeville, furthermore, presents us with an ambivalent view of history, pessimistic in the idea that the Muslims as the agents of evil are taking over the Christian heritage and the Land of Promise, but optimistic in the view that God will intervene to aid the Christians. Along this line, the Muslims are seen as the hordes of Gog and Magog, the agents of evil, whose cupidity and worldliness point also to and symbolize the roots of the current state of the Western Christian world. At the center of this picture, the figure of Mohammad stands out as the originator of all corruption, his iconography pregnant with all Antichristian evil.
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