Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions / edited by Christian Lange.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lange, Christian, editor.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 119.

Islamic History and Civilization Series ; Volume 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hell--Islam.

Hell.

Islamic eschatology.

Islam--Doctrines--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2015

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Muhammad's ascension / Frederick Colby

Hell in popular imagination: the anyonymous Kitab al-'Alamah / Wim Raven

Theological and mystical aspects

Is Hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism / Mohammad Hassan Khalil

Ibn Arabi, 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

Ismaili Shii visions of Hell from the "spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the ayyib 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-jaim / Richard van Leeuwen.

Notes:

Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on June 10, 2020.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789004301368 (ebook)

OCLC:

918997531

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004301368 DOI