Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has published a monograph and several articles on the history of crime and punishment in Islam, edited two volumes on Islamic political history, and is the author of the forthcoming Paradise and hell in Islam (2015-16).

• Table of contentsList of figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Introducing hell in Islamic StudiesChristian LangePart I: Quranic netherworlds2. The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the QuranTommaso Tesei3. From space to place: The Quranic infernalization of the jinnSimon O’Meara4. Revisiting hell’s angels in the QuranChristian LangePart II: Hell in early and medieval Islam5. Locating hell in early renunciant literatureChristopher Melchert6. Fire in the upper heavens: Locating hell in Middle Period narratives of Muḥammad’s AscensionFrederick Colby7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAẓamaWim RavenPart III: Theological and mystical aspects8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalismMohammad Hassan Khalil9. Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hellSamuela Pagani10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fireJon HooverPart IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions11. Ismaʿili-Shiʿi visions of hell: From the “spiritual” torment of the Fatimids to the Ṭayyibī rock of SijjīnDaniel de Smet12. The Morisco hell: The significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literatureRoberto Tottoli13. Curse signs: The artful rhetoric of hell in Safavid IranChristiane Gruber14. Literature and religious controversy: The vision of hell in Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī l-jaḥīmRichard van LeeuwenGeneral indexList of contributors

"Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions wird für die weitere Erforschung der Vorstellungen von der islamischen Hölle ein unabdingbarer Bezugspunkt bleiben.Rüdiger Lohlke, University of Vienna.