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Author:   Christian Lange
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   119
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.721kg
ISBN:  

9789004301214

ISBN 10:   9004301216
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   25 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Introducing hell in Islamic Studies Christian Lange Part I: Quranic netherworlds 2. The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran Tommaso Tesei 3. From space to place: The Quranic infernalization of the jinn Simon O'Meara 4. Revisiting hell's angels in the Quran Christian Lange Part II: Hell in early and medieval Islam 5. Locating hell in early renunciant literature Christopher Melchert 6. Fire in the upper heavens: Locating hell in Middle Period narratives of Muhammad's Ascension Frederick Colby 7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitab al-'Azama Wim Raven Part III: Theological and mystical aspects 8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism Mohammad Hassan Khalil 9. Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hell Samuela Pagani 10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazir (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire Jon Hoover Part IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions 11. Isma'ili-Shi'i visions of hell: From the spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the Tayyibi rock of Sijjin Daniel de Smet 12. The Morisco hell: The significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature Roberto Tottoli 13. Curse signs: The artful rhetoric of hell in Safavid Iran Christiane Gruber 14. Literature and religious controversy: The vision of hell in Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi's Thawra fi l-jahim Richard van Leeuwen General index List of contributors

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Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions wird fur die weitere Erforschung der Vorstellungen von der islamischen Hoelle ein unabdingbarer Bezugspunkt bleiben. Rudiger Lohlke, University of Vienna.

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Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has published a monograph and several articles on the history of crime and punishment in Islam, edited two volumes on Islamic political history, and is the author of the forthcoming Paradise and hell in Islam (2015-16).

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