Locating Hell in Islamic traditions /

Locating Hell in Islamic traditions /

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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Other Authors: Lange, Christian.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 119.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

Subjects:

Hell > Islam.
Islamic eschatology.
Islam > Doctrines > History.

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Call Number: BP166.88 .L63 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies /
  • Christian Lange
  • 2 The barzakh and the Intermediate State of the Dead in the Quran /
  • Tommaso Tesei
  • 3 From Space to Place /
  • Simon O'Meara
  • 4 Revisiting Hell's Angels in the Quran /
  • Christian Lange
  • 5 Locating Hell in Early Renunciant Literature /
  • Christopher Melchert
  • 6 Fire in the Upper Heavens /
  • Frederick Colby
  • 7 Hell in Popular Muslim Imagination /
  • Wim Raven
  • 8 Is Hell Truly Everlasting? /
  • Mohammad Hassan Khalil
  • 9 Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the Political Functions of Punishment in the Islamic Hell /
  • Samuela Pagani
  • 10 Withholding Judgment on Islamic Universalism /
  • Jon Hoover
  • 11 Ismaʿili-Shiʿi Visions of Hell /
  • Daniel De Smet
  • 12 The Morisco Hell /
  • Roberto Tottoli
  • 13 Curse Signs /
  • Christiane Gruber
  • 14 Literature and Religious Controversy /
  • Richard van Leeuwen
  • General Index.