Editing Gog and Magog (section)

=== Identifications ===
[[File:Quran Surah Al Kahf.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Surah Al Kahf Story of Gog and Magog]]
Various nations and peoples in history were identified as Ya'juj and Ma'juj. At one point, it was the Turks, who threatened [[Baghdad]] and northern Iran;{{sfn|Van Donzel|Schmidt|2010|pp=82–84}} later, when the Mongols destroyed Baghdad in 1258, it was they who were Gog and Magog.{{sfn|Filiu|2011|p=30}} Others regarded the [[Vikings]] and their descendants as Gog and Magog, since the unknown group from [[Scandinavia]] had made their sudden and considerable entry into the [[history of Europe]].<ref name="auto"/> Viking travelers and colonists were seen at many points in history as violent raiders. Many historical documents suggest that their conquests of other territories was retaliation in response to the encroachment upon tribal lands by [[Christian mission]]aries, and perhaps by the [[Saxon Wars]] prosecuted by [[Charlemagne]] and his kin to the south.<ref name="Rudolf Simek 2005, p. 24–25">Simek, Rudolf (2005) "the emergence of the viking age: circumstances and conditions", "The vikings first Europeans VIII&nbsp;– XI century&nbsp;– the new discoveries of archaeology", other, pp. 24–25</ref><ref name="Bruno Dumézil 2005">Bruno Dumézil, master of Conference at Paris X–Nanterre, Normalien, aggregated history, author of conversion and freedom in the barbarian kingdoms. 5th&nbsp;– 8th centuries (Fayard, 2005)</ref><ref name="annals R.20">"Franques Royal Annals" cited in Sawyer, Peter (2001) ''The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings''. {{ISBN|0-19-285434-8}}. p. 20</ref><ref name="Decaux 1981 pp. 184">Decaux, Alain and Castelot, André (1981) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire de France''. Perrin. {{ISBN|2-7242-3080-9}}. pp. 184–85</ref><ref name="Boyer, R. 2008 p. 96">Boyer, R. (2008) ''Les Vikings: histoire, mythes, dictionnaire''. R. Laffont. {{ISBN|978-2-221-10631-0}}. p. 96</ref> Researches of professors and philosophers such as [[Muhammad Iqbal|Allama Muhammad Iqbal]], [[Abul A'la Maududi|Syeed Abul Ala Mawdudi]], who played important roles in British and South Asian politics, and American academic [[Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi]] and Caribbean eschatologist [[Imran N. Hosein]], compare the languages, behaviors and sexual activities of the tribes of Gog and Magog with those of Vikings.<ref name="Lund">Lund, Niels "The Danish Empire and the End of the Viking Age", in Sawyer, ''History of the Vikings'', pp. 167–181.</ref><ref>[http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/Sweyn.aspx The Royal Household, "Sweyn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012256/http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/Sweyn.aspx |date=29 November 2014 }}, ''The official Website of The British Monarchy'', 15 March 2015, accessed 15 March 2015</ref><ref name="Lawson">Lawson, M K (2004). "Cnut: England's Viking King 1016–35". The History Press Ltd, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0582059702}}.</ref><ref>[http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/CanutetheGreat.aspx The Royal Household, "Canute The Great"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012257/http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/CanutetheGreat.aspx |date=29 November 2014 }}, ''The official Website of The British Monarchy'', 15 March 2015, accessed 15 March 2015</ref><ref name="Badsey et al.">Badsey, S. Nicolle, D, Turnbull, S (1999). "The Timechart of Military History". Worth Press Ltd, 2000, {{ISBN|1-903025-00-1}}.</ref>

Some scholars further attempt to relate Yajuj and Majuj to the Lake of Tiberias, currently known as the [[Sea of Galilee]], the [[Earth]]'s lowest freshwater lake, and the Dead Sea.<ref>[[Sahih Muslim]], 2937, The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour</ref> Historian and exegete [[Ibn Kathir]] mentioned similar theories in his book ''[[Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya]]'' and mentions "Gog and Magog are two groups of Turks, descended from Yafith (Japheth), the father of the Turks, one of the sons of Noah".<ref>(Shahadat-ul-Qur’an, Ruhani Khazain, Volume 6, Pages 361–362</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ghayb.com/tag/gog-and-magog/ | title=Gog and magog Archives }}</ref>