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020			_a9780521506373 (hardback)
020			_a9781108403832
020			_a9780521738156 (paperback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aBP166.8 _b.L36 2016
082	0	0	_a297.23 _223 _bLAN
084			_aHIS037000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aLange, Christian, _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aParadise and hell in Islamic traditions / _cChristian Lange, Utrecht University.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_avii, 365 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-345) and indexes.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Textual Foundations: Narrating the Otherworld: 1. The otherworld revealed: paradise and hell in the Qur'an; 2. The growth of the Islamic otherworld: a history of Muslim traditionist eschatology; 3. Hope, fear and entertainment: parenetic and popular Muslim literature on the otherworld; 4. The imagination unbound: two late-medieval Muslim scholars on paradise and hell; Part II. Discourses and Practices: Debating the Otherworld: 5. The otherworld contested: cosmology, soteriology and ontology in Sunni theology and philosophy; 6. Otherworlds apart: Shiʻi visions of paradise and hell; 7. The otherworld within: paradise and hell in Islamic mysticism; 8. Eschatology now: paradise and hell in Muslim topography, architecture and ritual; Epilogue.
520			_a"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 little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the Shiʻi world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aIslamic eschatology.
650		0	_aParadise _xIslam
650		0	_aFuture punishment _xIslam.
650		7	_aHISTORY / World. _2bisacsh
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