Author : Brooke Olson Vuckovic
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
Author : Brooke Olson Vuckovic
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415967853
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
Author : Brooke Olson Vuckovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1135885230
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
Author : Brooke Olson Vuckovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1135885249
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
Author : Brooke Elise Olson
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Islam
ISBN :
Author : Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253353610
The tales of the mi'raj describe the prophet Muhammad's journey through the heavens, his encounters with prophets and angels, and his visit to heaven and hell. The tales are among Islam's most popular, appearing in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature, and in later adaptations throughout the Muslim world. Often serving as narratives designed to promote the worldview of particular Muslim groups, the tales were also a means for communities to construct rules of normative behavior and ritual practices, and were used to assert the superiority of Islam over other religions. The essays in this collection discuss the formation of this narrative, the mi'raj as a missionary text, its various adaptations, its application to esoteric thought, and its use in performance and ritual. -- Book jacket.
Author : Frederick S. Colby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791477886
Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to the divine realm and back again.
Author : Jerald F. Dirks
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.
Author : Algis Uždavinys
Publisher : The Matheson Trust
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1908092025
In this groundbreaking work of comparative religion, Algis Uzdavinys takes us deeply into the "closed and blessed gardens of myth", showing us the capital importance of the many varieties of "ascent to heaven". From the Pyramid Texts down to Second Temple Judaism and apocalyptic Christian literature; and, in parallel, down the theurgic path of Platonic and Hermetic literature to the sanctum of the Islamic revelation in Mecca, we are vividly presented with the sacramental impact of anagoge: elevation to the domain of the supernal archetypes and heavenly principles. As with other books by the author, the face of antiquity is revealed anew, full of intriguing, challenging and enraptured insights.
Author : Christian Lange
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004301364
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.
