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

Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71180-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 136/1, 754 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1330 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 Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME I
Foundations and the Formation of a Tradition:
Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Editors

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND STYLE

ABBREVIATIONS

ZUM GELEIT
Josef van Ess

INTRODUCTION
Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson

PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY – CONFERENCE OPENING ADDRESSES
“The Paths to Reality are as Diverse as the Souls of Humanity”

Tilman Nagel: Paradise Lost

Mahmoud Zakzouk: The Path to Paradise from an Islamic Viewpoint

PART ONE
Paradise, Hell and Afterlife in the Quran and Quranic Exegesis

Muhammad Abdel Haleem: Quranic Paradise: How to Get to Paradise and What to Expect There

Angelika Neuwirth: Paradise as a Quranic Discourse: Late Antique Foundations and Early Quranic Developments

Todd Lawson: Paradise in the Quran and the Music of Apocalypse

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila: Paradise and Nature in the Quran and Pre-Islamic Poetry

Asma Afsaruddin: Dying in the Path of God: Reading Martyrdom and Moral Excellence in the Quran

Sebastian Günther: The Poetics of Islamic Eschatology: Narrative, Personification, and Colors in Muslim Discourse
PART TWO
The Pleasures of Paradise

Andrew J. Lane: “Reclining upon Couches in the Shade” (Q 35:56): Quranic Imagery in Rationalist Exegesis

Ailin Qian: Delights in Paradise: A Comparative Survey of Heavenly Food and Drink in the Quran

Maher Jarrar: Strategies for Paradise: Paradise Virgins and Utopia

Nerina Rustomji: Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the Wildan, Ghilman, and Hur

PART THREE
The Afterlife in Sunni Tradition and Theology

Aisha Geissinger: “Are Men the Majority in Paradise, or Women?” Constructing Gender and Communal Boundaries in Muslim b. al-Hajjaj’s (d. 261/875) Kitab al-Janna

Christian Lange: The ‘Eight Gates of Paradise’ Tradition in Islam: A Genealogical and Structural Study

Feras Hamza: Temporary Hellfire Punishment and the Making of Sunni Orthodoxy

Niall Christie: Paradise and Hell in the Kitab al-Jihad of 'Ali b. Tahir al-Sulami (d. 500/1106)

Wilferd Madelung: Al-Ghazali on Resurrection and the Road to Paradise

Dorothee Pielow: Sleepless in Paradise: Lying in State between This World and the Next

PART FOUR
A Wise Man’s Paradise – Eschatology and Philosophy

Michael E. Marmura: Paradise in Islamic Philosophy

Thomas Würtz: The Orthodox Conception of the Hereafter: Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani’s (d. 793/1390) Examination of some Mu'tazili and Philosophical Objections

Hermann Landolt: ‘Being-Towards-Resurrection:’ Mulla Sadra’s Critique of Suhrawardi’s Eschatology

Mohammed Rustom: A Philosopher’s Itinerary for the Afterlife: Mulla Sadra on Paths to Felicity

PART FIVE
The Path beyond this World – Vision and Spiritual Experience of the Hereafter

Simon O’Meara: Muslim Visuality and the Visibility of Paradise and the World

Maryam Moazzen: A Garden beyond the Garden: 'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani’s Perspective on Paradise

Katja Föllmer: Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Path to God and the Concept of Martyrdom in 'Attar’s Conference of the Birds

PART SIX
Unity in Variety – Shi‘ism and Other Muslim Identities

Omid Ghaemmaghami: “And the Earth will Shine with the Light of its Lord” (Q 39:69): Qa'im and qiyama in Shi‘i Islam

Elizabeth Alexandrin: Paradise as the Abode of Pure Knowledge: Reconsidering al-Mu'ayyad’s “Isma‘ili Neoplatonism”

S.J. Badakhchani: Notions of Paradise in the Isma‘ili Works of Nasir al-Din Tusi

Jamel A. Velji: Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Construction of Authority in Medieval Isma‘ilism

Alexey A. Khismatulin: Just a Step Away From Paradise: Barzakh in the Ahl-i Haqq Teachings

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: “Paradise is at the Feet of Mothers:” The Hurufi Road

Mohammad Hassan Khalil: Which Road to Paradise? The Controversy of Reincarnation in Islamic Thought

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.