Constantinople in the Qur’an
A study of the city's place in Islamic eschatology and of the prophecies the author reads as attached to it.
Constantinople stands in the hadith literature as a city whose conquest is foretold, and Hosein takes that prophecy as the thread of this study. He traces the city’s changing status from Byzantium to Istanbul, asks which conquest the prophecies describe and whether it has already happened, and connects the question to his wider argument that the events of the end of time are legible in modern political history rather than reserved for a remote future.
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