This book provides a broad overview of Muslim eschatology throughout history and up to the present day. Through its multidisciplinary approach, it highlights the richness and variety of Muslim eschatology. Its contributions investigate eschatological themes – from eschatological motifs in early Islamic inscriptions through the relationship between eschatology and sacred topography in Mecca or the place of Nuʿaym in the constitution of the apocalyptic scenario of Sunni Islam to the eschatological discourses among Muslim preachers on Youtube and TikTok, among modern jihadists or in French-speaking revolutionary Salafist literature.
The book is the culmination of a series of lectures on eschatological imaginings in Islam, which was one of the main themes of a prize-winning research project funded by the French Ministry of the Interior’s Central Office for Religious Affairs, as part of its initiative ‘Islam, Religion and Society 2021’. It brings together historians of early and medieval Islam, Islamologists, and specialists in contemporary Islam.
