Christian Lange

Paperback, 384 pages

9780521738156

 

Contents

 

1. The otherworld revealed: paradise and hell in the Qurʾan

 

2. The growth of the Islamic otherworld: a history of Muslim traditionist eschatology

 

3. Hope, fear and entertainment: parenetic and popular Muslim literature on the otherworld

 

4. The imagination unbound: two late-medieval Muslim scholars on paradise and hell

 

5. The otherworld contested: cosmology, soteriology and ontology in Sunni theology and philosophy

 

6. Otherworlds apart: Shiʿi visions of paradise and hell

 

7. The otherworld within: paradise and hell in Islamic mysticism

 

8. Eschatology now: paradise and hell in Muslim topography, architecture and ritual