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The Islamic understanding of death and resurrection / Jane Idleman Smith, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Jane I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic eschatology.
- Death--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Death.
- Resurrection (Islam).
- Future life--Islam.
- Future life.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 262 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book provides a thorough and accessible guide to belief about the afterlife in the Sunni Muslim tradition. Drawing on the Qur'an, traditions, creeds, and theological commentaries, as well as interviews with Muslim clerics, the authors offer an overview of the Islamic eschatological narrative, describing the understanding of events beginning with the death of the individual and ending with habitation in the final abodes of recompense.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195156498
- OCLC:
- 51437413
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