Format:
XIII, 369 Seiten
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Illustrationen (farbig)
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24 cm
ISBN:
9004301216
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9789004301214
Series Statement:
Islamic history and civilization volume 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.This book 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...
Content:
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 Muḥammad's ascension / Frederick Colby -- Hell in popular imagination: the anyonymous Kitab al-ʼAlamah / Wim Raven -- Theological and mystical aspects -- Is Hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism / Mohammad Hassan Khalil -- Ibn ʻArabi, 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 -- Ismaʻili Shiʻi visions of Hell from the "spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the ʻayyib 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-jaʻim / Richard van Leeuwen
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Hier auch unveränderte Nachdrucke
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"All but two of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a symposium entitled 'Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions' (28-29 April 2012), hosted by the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Utrecht University."
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1 Introducing Hell in Islamic studies
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Quranic Netherworlds ; 2 The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran
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From space to place: the Quranic infernalization of the jinn
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Revisiting Hell's angels in the Quran
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Hell in early and medieval Islam ; Locating Hell in early rununciant literature
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Fire in the upper heavens: locating Hell in middle period narratives of Muḥammad's ascension
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Hell in popular imagination: the anyonymous Kitab al-ʼAlamah
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Theological and mystical aspects ; Is Hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism
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Ibn ʻArabi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the political functions of punishment in Islamic Hell
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Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism, Ibn al-Wazir (d. 840/1436) On the purpose and duration of hellfire
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Varieties of Hell in Islamic traditions ; Ismaʻili Shiʻi visions of Hell from the "spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the ʻayyib rock of Sijjin
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The Morisco Hell: the significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature
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Curse signs: the artful rhetoric of Hell in Safavid Iran
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Literature and religious controversy : the vision of Hell in Jamil Sidqy al-Zahawi's Thawra fi l-jaʻim
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004301368
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions (Veranstaltung : 2012 : Utrecht) Locating hell in Islamic traditions Leiden : Brill, 2016 ISBN 9789004301368
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Islam
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Hölle
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Islam
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Jenseitsglaube
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Hölle
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Lange, Christian Robert 1975-
