Joachim of Fiore ranked Muhammad’s persecution fourth in a series ending in Antichrist.

Evidence

In Joachim’s scheme of history, Muhammad and the Muslim ‘persecution’ had succeeded, fourth in line, to those of the heretics, the pagans and the Jews, under Constantine, Nero and Herod; the series was to culminate in Antichrist, whose last predecessor was Salah ad-Din. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1027

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s medieval heresy work and to apocalyptic schemas of history. — connects to: Joachim of Fiore placed Muhammad in a scripted series of persecutions culminating in Antichrist