Eschatology in Islam concerns teachings about the end of history and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind. 1. Apocalypticism and eschatology Prominent works of eschatology (ʿulūm al-ākhira) in the Islamic tradition, such as al-Qurṭubī's (Sunnī, d. 621/1273) al-Tadhkira fī aḥwāl al-mawtā wa-umūr al-ākhira ("Memoir of the conditions of the dead and the ultimate things") or Hāshim b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī's (Shīʿī, d. 1107/1695-6) Maʿālim al-zulfā fī maʿārif al-nashʾa al-ūlā wa-l-ukhrā ("Signposts