Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30121-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Islam 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lange, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Glaubensrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Über Autor(innen)

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).