/ Jean-Pierre Filiu ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2011.
1101
p. cm.
Original Title: L'Apocalypse dans l'islam.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: the end of the world draws nigh - True and false messiahs of Islam - The archeology of end times - The grand masters of the medieval apocalypse - Avatars of the Mahdi - Apocalypse now - The dawn of the fifteenth century of Islam - Pioneers of the contemporary apocalypse - The horsemen of apocalyptic jihad - The beginning of the end in Iraq - The grand return of the Shii Mahdi - Diasporas of the apocalypse - The armageddon of jihad - Epilogue: through the looking glass-and beyond.