Mahdawiyya, Eschatology and the Hegel's Philosophy of History

Although prevision of the future had been a characteristic of human beings during the history and many religions and thinkers propound it, a realistic and rational view to the end of human history and interpreting and analyzing the quality of ending the history still is the target of analysis and critique. Islam, amongst the religions, by propounding its unambiguous and argued idea about the end of human history, has been, at least in a period of it, perfectly successful. Belief in Mahdawiyya in Sha world, propounded the future of mankind in a reasonable, beautiful and hopeful shape. The philosophers propping on rational principles and philosophical arguments also propounded this topic.Despite of his little information about Islamic beliefs in this field, Hegel is one of the philosophers that widely contrived this topic on the basis of his philosophical categories like phenomenology of spirit, freedom and self-inauguration of the soul in the history, dialectics and rationality of history, and intended to find a rational answer to this question. By a synoptic review of the principles of Hegel's philosophical thought, this writing examined this subject from his viewpoint.