Roads to paradise. : eschatology and concepts of the hereafter in Islam / / edited by Sebastian Gunther and Todd Lawson ; with the assistance of Christian Mauder.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 136/1-2
• TeilnehmendeR: Günther, Sebastian,; Lawson, Todd, 1948-; Mauder, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 136/1-2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,549 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson -- Paradise Lost / Tilman Nagel -- The Path to Paradise from an Islamic Viewpoint / Mahmoud Zakzouk -- Quranic Paradise: How to Get to Paradise and What to Expect There / Muhammad Abdel Haleem -- Paradise as a Quranic Discourse: Late Antique Foundations and Early Quranic Developments / Angelika Neuwirth -- Paradise in the Quran and the Music of Apocalypse / Todd Lawson -- Paradise and Nature in the Quran and Pre-Islamic Poetry / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila -- Dying in the Path of God: Reading Martyrdom and Moral Excellence in the Quran / Asma Afsaruddin -- The Poetics of Islamic Eschatology: Narrative, Personification, and Colors in Muslim Discourse / Sebastian Günther -- “Reclining upon Couches in the Shade” (Q 35:56): Quranic Imagery in Rationalist Exegesis / Andrew J. Lane -- Delights in Paradise: A Comparative Survey of Heavenly Food and Drink in the Quran / Ailin Qian -- Strategies for Paradise: Paradise Virgins and Utopia / Maher Jarrar -- Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the Wildān, Ghilmān, and Ḥūr / Nerina Rustomji -- “Are Men the Majority in Paradise, or Women?” Constructing Gender and Communal Boundaries in Muslim born al-Ḥajjāj’s (d. 261/875) Kitāb al-Janna / Aisha Geissinger -- The ‘Eight Gates of Paradise’ Tradition in Islam: A Genealogical and Structural Study / Christian Lange -- Temporary Hellfire Punishment and the Making of Sunni Orthodoxy / Feras Hamza -- Paradise and Hell in the Kitāb al-Jihād of ʿAlī born Ṭāhir al-Sulamī (d. 500/1106) / Niall Christie -- Al-Ghazālī on Resurrection and the Road to Paradise / Wilferd Madelung -- Sleepless in Paradise: Lying in State between This World and the Next / Dorothee Pielow -- Paradise in Islamic Philosophy / Michael E. Marmura -- The Orthodox Conception of the Hereafter: Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī’s (d. 793/1390) Examination of Some Muʿtazilī and Philosophical Objections / Thomas Würtz -- ‘Being-Towards-Resurrectionʼ: Mullā Ṣadrā’s Critique of Suhrawardī’s Eschatology / Hermann Landolt -- A Philosopher’s Itinerary for the Afterlife: Mullā Ṣadrā on Paths to Felicity / Mohammed Rustom -- Muslim Visuality and the Visibility of Paradise and the World / Simon O’Meara -- A Garden beyond the Garden: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Perspective on Paradise / Maryam Moazzen -- Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Path to God and the Concept of Martyrdom in ʿAṭṭār’s Conference of the Birds / Katja Föllmer -- “And the Earth will Shine with the Light of its Lord” (Q 39:69): Qāʾim and qiyāma in Shiʿi Islam / Omid Ghaemmaghami -- Paradise as the Abode of Pure Knowledge: Reconsidering al-Muʾayyad’s “Ismaʿili Neoplatonism” / Elizabeth Alexandrin -- Notions of Paradise in the Ismaʿili Works of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī / S.J. Badakhchani -- Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Construction of Authority in Medieval Ismaʿilism / Jamel A. Velji -- Just a Step away from Paradise: Barzakh in the Ahl-i Ḥaqq Teachings / Alexey A. Khismatulin -- “Paradise is at the Feet of Mothers”: The Ḥurūfī Road / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- Which Road to Paradise? The Controversy of Reincarnation in Islamic Thought / Mohammad Hassan Khalil.