UID:
almahu_9949703258102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004301368
Series Statement:
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 119
Content:
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 hell, from the Quranic vision(s) of hell to the pious cultivation of the fear of the afterlife, theological speculations, metaphorical and psychological understandings, and the modern transformations of hell. Contributors: Frederick Colby, Daniel de Smet, Christiane Gruber, Jon Hoover, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Christian Lange, Christopher Melchert, Simon O'Meara, Samuela Pagani, Tommaso Tesei, Roberto Tottoli, Wim Raven, and Richard van Leeuwen.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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1 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies /
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2 The barzakh and the Intermediate State of the Dead in the Quran /
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3 From Space to Place /
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4 Revisiting Hell's Angels in the Quran /
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5 Locating Hell in Early Renunciant Literature /
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6 Fire in the Upper Heavens /
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7 Hell in Popular Muslim Imagination /
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8 Is Hell Truly Everlasting? /
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9 Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the Political Functions of Punishment in the Islamic Hell /
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10 Withholding Judgment on Islamic Universalism /
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11 Ismaʿili-Shiʿi Visions of Hell /
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12 The Morisco Hell /
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13 Curse Signs /
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14 Literature and Religious Controversy /
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General Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2016, ISBN 9789004301214
Language:
English
