Paradise and hell in Islamic traditions /
The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a lit...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Textual Foundations: Narrating the Otherworld
- The otherworld revealed: paradise and hell in the Qur'an
- 2. The growth of the Islamic otherworld: a history of Muslim traditionist eschatology
- Hope, fear, and entertainment: parenetic and popular Muslim literature on the otherworld
- The imagination unbound: two late-medieval Muslim scholars on paradise and hell
- Part II. Discourses and Practices: Debating the Otherworld
- The otherworld contested: cosmology, soteriology and ontology in Sunni theology and philosophy
- Otherworlds apart: Shiʻi visions of paradise and hell
- The otherworld within: paradise and hell in Islamic mysticism
- Eschatology now: paradise and hell in Muslim topography, architecture and ritual.