Muslim Eschatological Literature and Western Studies

A short treatise known as Ahwal al-qiyama appears to be the most diffused eschatological work in in Muslim literature. It is also known under other different titles. The paper discusses the Western studies which edited it or dealt with this work under its various titles, in general failing to notice this situation. The second part of the article discusses all the manuscript remains preserving the work under different titles and attributing them to different authors. The picture offered is that of a major eschatological work diffused all other Muslim medieval world and also dispalying a rich and peculiar history in its printed diffusion in the 19th and 20th century.