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Book SynopsisIslam 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, 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.
Trade Review"Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions wird für die weitere Erforschung der Vorstellungen von der islamischen Hölle ein unabdingbarer Bezugspunkt bleiben. Rüdiger Lohlke, University of Vienna.
Table of ContentsTable 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 Muḥammad’s Ascension Frederick Colby 7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAẓama Wim Raven Part III: Theological and mystical aspects 8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism Mohammad Hassan Khalil 9. Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hell Samuela Pagani 10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire Jon Hoover Part IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions 11. Ismaʿili-Shiʿi visions of hell: From the “spiritual” torment of the Fatimids to the Ṭayyibī rock of Sijjīn 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 Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī l-jaḥīm Richard van Leeuwen General index List of contributors
