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Autore |
Lange Christian |
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Titolo |
Locating hell in Islamic traditions / / edited by Christian Lange |
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Brill, 2015 |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2015] |
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ISBN |
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9789004301368 (ebook) |
9789004301214 (hardback) |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Islamic history and civilization ; ; v. 119 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hell - Islam |
Islamic eschatology |
Islam - Doctrines - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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. |
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