Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions /

Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions / / edited by Christian Lange.

Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study of the Muslim hell. It maps out a broad spectrum of Islamic attitudes toward...

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Superior document:Islamic History and Civilization Series ; Volume 119
TeilnehmendeR:
Lange, Christian,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 119.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) :; illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introducing Hell in Islamic studies / Christian Lange
  • QURANIC NETHERWORLDS
  • 2 The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran / Tommaso Tesei
  • From space to place: the Quranic infernalization of the jinn / Simon O'Meara
  • Revisiting Hell's angels in the Quran / Christian Lange
  • Hell in early and medieval Islam
  • Locating Hell in early rununciant literature / Christopher Melchert
  • Fire in the upper heavens: locating Hell in middle period narratives of Muhammad's ascension / Frederick Colby
  • Hell in popular imagination: the anyonymous Kitab al-'Alamah / Wim Raven
  • Theological and mystical aspects
  • Is Hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism / Mohammad Hassan Khalil
  • Ibn Arabi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the political functions of punishment in Islamic Hell / Samuela Pagani
  • Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism, Ibn al-Wazir (d. 840/1436) On the purpose and duration of hellfire / Jon Hoover
  • Varieties of Hell in Islamic traditions
  • Ismaili Shii visions of Hell from the "spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the ayyib rock of Sijjin / Daniel De Smet
  • The Morisco Hell: the significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature / Roberto Tottoli
  • Curse signs: the artful rhetoric of Hell in Safavid Iran / Christiane Gruber
  • Literature and religious controversy : the vision of Hell in Jamil Sidqy al-Zahawi's Thawra fi l-jaim / Richard van Leeuwen.

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