Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 Vols.)

Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought / Volume 2: Continuity and Change. the Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World
Herausgeber: Günther, Sebastian; Lawson, Todd

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Produktbeschreibung

Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thought on paradise, death, and the hereafter. It promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 1550
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 166mm x 99mm
• Gewicht: 2661g
• ISBN-13: 9789004333130
• ISBN-10: 9004333134
• Artikelnr.: 45589503

Autorenporträt

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 Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature (co-ed., Hildesheim 2016) and Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal: Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam (ed., Leiden 2005). 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 a PhD student at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the University of Göttingen, Germany. 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>