Note 10 — ARABIAN NIGHTS’ (continued 6)
Reading edition · Edition 2
Degial, with the Mahometans, is the same as Antichrist with us. According to them, he is to appear about the end of the world, and will conquer all the earth, except Mecca, Medina, Tarsus, and Jerusalem, which are to be preserved by angels which he shall set round them.