Locating hell in islamic traditions / edited by Christian Lange. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies
Part 1 Quranic Netherworlds
Chapter 2 The barzakh and the Intermediate State of the Dead in the Quran
Chapter 3 From Space to Place The Quranic Infernalization of the Jinn
Chapter 4 Revisiting Hell’s Angels in the Quran
Part 2 Hell in Early and Medieval Islam
Chapter 5 Locating Hell in Early Renunciant Literature
Chapter 6 Fire in the Upper Heavens Locating Hell in Middle Period Narratives of Muḥammad’s Ascension
Chapter 7 Hell in Popular Muslim Imagination The Anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAẓama
Part 3 Theological and Mystical Aspects
Chapter 8 Is Hell Truly Everlasting? An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Universalism
Chapter 9 Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the Political Functions of Punishment in the Islamic Hell
Chapter 10 Withholding Judgment on Islamic Universalism Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the Duration and Purpose of Hell-Fire
Part 4 Varieties of Hell in Islamic Traditions
Chapter 11 Ismaʿili-Shiʿi Visions of Hell From the “Spiritual” Torment of the Fāṭimids to the Ṭayyibī Rock of Sijjīn
Chapter 12 The Morisco Hell The Significance and Relevance of Aljamiado Texts for Muslim Eschatology and Islamic Literature
Chapter 13 Curse Signs The Artful Rhetoric of Hell in Safavid Iran
Chapter 14 Literature and Religious Controversy The Vision of Hell in Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī l-jaḥīm
General Index