Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.): Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought / Volume 2: Continuity and Change. The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate WorldSebastian Günther, Todd Lawson BRILL, 20.02.2017 - 1550 Seiten Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies. Unparalleled and unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, Roads to Paradise promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology for the years to come. |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
Preparing for the Journey Conference Opening Addresses The Paths to Reality are as Diverse as the Souls of Humanity | 29 |
Part 1 Paradise Hell and Afterlife in the Quran and Quranic Exegesis | 47 |
Part 2 The Pleasures of Paradise | 219 |
Part 3 The Afterlife in Sunni Tradition and Theology | 309 |
Part 4 A Wise Mans Paradise Eschatology and Philosophy | 443 |
Part 5 The Path beyond this World Vision and Spiritual Experience of the Hereafter | 553 |
Part 6 Unity in Variety Shiʿism and OtherMuslim Identities | 603 |
Part 7 Paradise and Eschatology in Comparative Perspective | 755 |
Part 8 Eschatology and Literature | 815 |
Part 9 Bringing Paradise Down to Earth Aesthetic Representations of the Hereafter | 977 |
Part 10 Heavens and the Hereafter in Scholarship and Natural Sciences | 1081 |
Part 11 Paradise Meets Modernity The Dynamics of Paradise Discourse in the Nineteenth Twentieth and TwentyFirst Centuries | 1141 |
Bibliographical Appendix | 1323 |
Indices | 1393 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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