الدَّجَّال
al-Dajjāl
The deceiver or false messiah of later Islamic eschatological tradition, described primarily in hadith rather than named in the Qur'an.
- Pronunciation
- ad-daj-jālPronunciation is approximate and may vary by period, dialect, and scholarly reconstruction.
- Morphology
- intensive active form/title from the root دجل
- Semantic range
- deceiver
- impostor
- false messiah
Corpus usage
- Hadith corpora provide the primary descriptions; communities differ in interpretation and emphasis.
Common interpretive errors
- Calling the figure simply the Islamic Antichrist without explaining differences.
- Attributing hadith details directly to the Qur'an.