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Paradise and hell in Islamic traditions
\"The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the Shi°i world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Imagining Gay Paradise
Mages of Manhood asks the question: How have gay/queer men in Southeast Asia used images of paradise to construct homes for themselves and for the different ideas of manhood they represent? The book examines how three gay men in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore have deployed different ideas of “paradise” over the past century to create a sense of refuge and to dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For the disciplines of queer studies, gender studies, communication, and Southeast Asian studies, it provides (1) a “queer reading” of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turned Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state; (2) a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI, providing an analysis of his plays, and the subsequent resistance to those notions expressed through an erotic, architectural paradise called Babylon created by a post-World War II Thai named Khun Toc; and (3) an account and analysis of the “cyber-paradise” created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. The book examines their pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, the different types of gay spaces they created (geographic, architectural, online), and the political obstacles they have encountered. Because of its historical sweep and its focus on the relationship between gay men and ideas of Edenic space, it makes an important contribution to understanding gay/queer life in Southeast Asia.
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The Ontology, Arrangement, and Appearance of Paradise in Castilian Kabbalah in Light of Contemporary Islamic Traditions from al-Andalus
This study is a comparative analysis of the appearances of the lower and upper Paradise, their divisions, and the journeys to and within them, which appear in mystical Jewish and Islamic sources in medieval Iberia. Ibn al-‘Arabī’s vast output on the Gardens of divine reward and their divisions generated a number of instructive comparisons to the eschatological and theosophical writing about the same subject in early Spanish Kabbalah. Although there is no direct historical evidence that kabbalists knew of such Arabic works from the region Catalonia or Andalusia, there are commonalities in fundamental imagery and in ontological and exegetical assumptions that resulted from an internalization of similar patterns of thought. It is quite reasonable to assume that these literary corpora, both products of the thirteenth century, were shaped by common sources from earlier visionary literature. The prevalence of translations of religious writing about ascents on high, produced in Castile in the later thirteenth century, can help explain the sudden appearance of visionary literature on Paradise and its divisions in the writings of Jewish esotericists of the same region. These findings therefore enrich our knowledge of the literary, intellectual, and creative background against which these kabbalists were working when they chose to depict Paradise in the way that they did, at the time that they did.
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The Concept of Heaven in Drawings by French Muslim Children
This study examined drawings of children’s concepts of paradise categorized by age, gender, and religious-cultural differences. Participants were Sunni Turkish Muslim children born in France and who attend Islamic religious education at France's Strasbourg Yunus Emre Mosque on weekends. Three superordinate and 14 subordinate qualitative categories were formed from the children’s drawings analyzed by the phenomenographic method. Although concrete descriptions of heaven were seen in the drawings by children of all ages, abstract depictions increased with age. Whereas drawings of heaven by girls depicted love and compassion, boys’ drawings represented power. Although there are commonalities between the descriptions by children of Muslim background and children from other religious backgrounds and cultures, the children’s particular religious and cultural structures were reflected in their representations of paradise. Recommendations from this study are given for the nature of the education children receive regarding death and heaven and hell.
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The Qur'an Translations of Marracci and Sale
Only in 1921 was it recognized that John Sale's 18th-century translation of the Qur'an relied to a great extent on the earlier Latin version of the Catholic cleric Ludovico Marracci. While the first work issued from religious polemic, and Englightened notion of useful knowledge underpinned the second, this is not to say that the two efforts did not face the same philological challenges or employ similar critical methods. Indeed, to recognize their proximity is also to understand the role which philology played in the development of Englightenment comparativism. (Quotes from original text)
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Alâüddevle Simnânî’nin Tasavvufî Eğitim Anlayışı Bağlamında Âhiret
The hereafter, one of the main pillars of Islam, has been discussed by both theologians and Ṣūfīs from various angles and interpreted in many different ways. Although there is consensus on the main subjects, there are a lot of controversies in details. One of the Ṣūfīs who authored on diverse problems over the hereafter is ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī (d. 736/1336). He was a Kubrawī shaykh during the Īlkhānid era. He inclined towards the Ṣūfī path after serving the Buddhist ruler Arghun (r. 1284-1291) for ten years, thanks to a spiritual experience he had. He met with Nūr al-dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Isfarāyīnī (d. 717/1317), a Kubrawī shaykh based in Baghdad, and became a disciple of him, granted ijāza (a certificate of authority) from him. Upon his shaykh’s order, he turned back to his hometown and spent his life until his death, in his Ṣūfī lodge raising disciples and writing works. He had contributed greatly both to his own order and to the literature of Ṣūfism with his disciples and written works. As regards to the hereafter, his opinions on the reality of this world and its position against the next, death, the doomsday and its kinds, the existence of the paradise and the hell today and their present location are remarkable. In this article, his views over those problems are discussed in the context of his understanding of mystical training.
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SIGNS OF THE HOUR: Eschatological Imagery in Islamic Book Arts
Eschatological imagery appeared in Persian and Turkish book arts from circa 1300 to 1900. In manuscript paintings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the signs of the hour were closely affiliated with the Prophet Muhammad and the miraculous events of his life, in particular his heavenly ascension. In the sixteenth century, illustrations of otherworldly terrains and events were further developed in pilgrimage guides and books on the conditions of resurrection. These illustrated manuscripts were marked by millenarian anticipation and sectarian debate. By the 1800s, new cosmologies began to provide readers and viewers with exoteric pictodiagrams for meditating upon the esoteric meanings of faith and imagining salvation. In these depictions of the afterlife, the Islamic eschaton is rendered as a set of otherworldly realities that transcends language and thus is best rendered by means of graphic images.
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The Quranic Mushrikūn and the resurrection (Part I)
This article examines the attitudes of the Quranic mushrikūn to the resurrection and the afterlife, focusing on those who doubted or denied the reality of both. The first part of the article argues that the doubters and deniers had grown up in a monotheist environment familiar with both concepts and that it was from within the monotheist tradition that they rejected them. The second part (published in a forthcoming issue of BSOAS) relates their thought to intellectual currents in Arabia and the Near East in general, arguing that the role of their pagan heritage in their denial is less direct than normally assumed. It is also noted that mutakallims such as Abū ʿĪsā al-Warrāq and al-Māturīdī anticipated the main conclusions reached in this paper.
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A Concise Numerical Guide for the Perplexed Shiite: Al-Barqī's (d. 274/888 or 280/894) Kitāb al-Aškāl wa-l-qarāʾin
The peculiarity of Kitāb al-Aškāl wa-l-qarāʾin, the opening section in the printed editions of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Barqī's (d. 274/888 or 280/894) Kitāb al-Maḥāsin, is easily discernable: it is sub-divided into chapters bearing numeric titles, from \"The Chapter on Three\" to \"The Chapter on Ten\". Each of these chapters contains various Imamite or prophetic traditions whose message is related in one way or another to the number mentioned in its title. Attempting to shed additional light on the Shiite hadith literature prior to its canonization during the Buwayhid era (334/945-447/1055), this article examines the relationship between style and content within this numerical framework. Being the earliest extant Shiite example of a numerical treatise, the present paper sets out to trace the author's possible sources of inspiration as well as the work's impact on later generations of Shiite scholars.
La particularité du Kitāb al-Aškāl wa-l-qarāʾin, la première section de l'édition publiée du Kitāb al-Maḥāsin d'Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Barqī (m. 274/888 ou 280/894) est facilement reconnaissable: cette section est divisée en chapitres consacrés aux chiffres, allant du « chapitre sur le trois » au « chapitre sur le dix ». Chaque chapitre est ainsi formé de hadiths traitant de différents aspects doctrinaux liés aux chiffres. Le présent article examine la relation entre la forme et le contenu de ces chapitres pour éclairer quelques aspects peu connus du hadith chiite avant sa fixation à l'époque bouyide (334/945-447/1055). Par ailleurs, il s'agit de tenter de trouver les possibles sources d'inspiration de cet ancien recueil chiite sur les nombres et d'examiner son influence parmi les savants chiites postérieurs.
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Reading Mosques: Meaning and Architecture in Islam
This article applies the notion of reading architecture to mosques by offering an analysis of certain symbolic features that have been, and still continue to be, common in most kinds of mosques. These symbols representing \"paradise\", \"the heavenly theatre\", \"urban sculpture\", \"the cosmic spiral\", and so on are used to communicate religious ideals, the understanding of which is essential both to interpret the meaning of mosques and to judge them aesthetically. (Quotes from original text)
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