Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam

Volume 2: Continuity and Change. the Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71249-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 136/2, 740 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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.

Available as:

• Hardback (ISBN 978-90-04-33313-0, 2 volumes)

• E-Book (ISBN 978-90-04-33315-4)

• Paperback (ISBN 978-90-04-72491-4, 2 volumes)

Paperback volumes are also available separately:

• Paperback, Volume 1 (ISBN 978-90-04-71180-8)

• Paperback, Volume 2 (ISBN 978-90-04-71249-2)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Günther, Sebastian

Lawson, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME II
Continuity and Change:
The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World

PART SEVEN
Paradise and Eschatology in Comparative Perspective

Fred M. Donner: A Typology of Eschatological Concepts

Martin Tamcke: The “World” in its Eschatological Dimension in East-Syrian Synodical Records

Sidney H. Griffith: St. Ephraem the Syrian, the Quran, and the Grapevines of Paradise: An Essay in Comparative Eschatology

Martin Tamcke: Paradise? America! The Metaphor of Paradise in the Context of the Iraqi-Christian Migration

PART EIGHT
Eschatology and Literature

Waleed Ahmed: The Characteristics of Paradise (Sifat al-Janna): A Genre of Eschatological Literature in Medieval Islam

Mahmoud Hegazi: “Roads to Paradise” in Risalat al-Ghufran of the Arab Thinker al-Ma'arri

Roberto Tottoli: Muslim Eschatology and the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad: Describing Paradise in Mi'raj Traditions and Literature

Samar Attar: An Islamic Paradiso in a Medieval Christian Poem? Dante’s Divine Comedy Revisited

Claudia Ott: Paradise, Alexander the Great and the Arabian Nights: Some New Insights Based on an Unpublished Manuscript

Walid A. Saleh: Paradise in an Islamic 'Aja'ib Work: The Delight of Onlookers and the Signs for Investigators of Mar'i b. Yusuf al-Karmi (d. 1033/1624)

Suha Kudsieh: Expulsion from Paradise: Granada in Radwa 'Ashur’s The Granada Trilogy (1994–8) and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)

PART NINE
Bringing Paradise down to Earth – Aesthetic Representations of the Hereafter

Maribel Fierro: Madinat al-Zahra', Paradise and the Fatimids

Tehnyat Majeed: The Char Muhammad Inscription, Shafa'a, and the Mamluk Qubba al-Mansuriyya

Karin Rührdanz: Visualizing Encounters on the Road to Paradise

Ulrich Marzolph: Images of Paradise in Popular Shi‘ite Iconography

Silvia Naef: Where is Paradise on Earth? Visual Arts in the Arab World and the Construction of a Mythic Past

PART TEN
Heavens and the Hereafter in Scholarship and Natural Sciences

Ingrid Hehmeyer: The Configuration of the Heavens in Islamic Astronomy

Anver M. Emon: The Quadrants of Shari'a: The Here and Hereafter as Constitutive of Islamic Law

Ludmila Hanisch: Perceptions of Paradise in the Writings of Julius Wellhausen, Mark Lidzbarski, and Hans Heinrich Schaeder

PART ELEVEN
Paradise meets Modernity – The Dynamics of Paradise Discourse in the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Ediwn P. Wieringa: Islam and Paradise are Sheltered under the Shade of Swords: Phallocentric Fantasies of Paradise in Nineteenth-Century Acehnese War Propaganda and their Lasting Legacy

Umar Ryad: Eschatology between Reason and Revelation: Death and Resurrection in Modern Islamic Theology

Martin Riexinger: Between Science Fiction and Sermon: Eschatological Writings Inspired by Said Nursi

Liza M. Franke: Notions of Paradise and Martyrdom in Contemporary Palestinian Thought

Ruth Mas: Crisis and the Secular Rhetoric of Islamic Paradise

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX

INDICES
1. PROPER NAMES
2. GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES AND TOPONYMS
3. TITLES OF BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS
4. SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES
5. TOPICS AND KEYWORDS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Über Autor(innen)

Sebastian Günther, Ph.D. (1989), is Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. Germany. He has published extensively on the intellectual history of Islam, including Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse: Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030) (co-ed., Tübingen 2021) and Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam (2 vols., ed., Leiden 2020).

Todd Lawson, Ph.D. (1989), is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on Quranic exegesis, mysticism, Shi‘ism, and Quranic literary problems. Recent publications include articles such as Friendship, Illumination and the Water of Life (2016), Joycean Modernism in a 19th century Qur’an commentary (2015), The Qur’an and Epic (2014) and the monograph Gnostic Apocalypse in Islam (London 2012).

Christian Mauder is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of History and Cultural Studies. He has published several studies on the intellectual, cultural and religious history of Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, including the monograph Gelehrte Krieger: Die Mamluken als Träger arabischsprachiger Bildung (Hildesheim 2012). His second monograph In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qanisawh al-Ghawri (r. 1501–1516) (Brill 2021) constitutes the first in-depth analysis of an Egyptian court as a transregional center of Islamic intellectual, religious, and political culture at the turn from the late middle to the early modern period.