Christian Lange

Paperback, 384 pages

9780521738156

Contents

1. The otherworld revealed: paradise and hell in the Quran

2. The growth of the Islamic otherworld: a history of Muslim traditionist eschatology

3. Hope, fear and entertainment: parenetic and popular Muslim literature on the otherworld

4. The imagination unbound: two late-medieval Muslim scholars on paradise and hell

5. The otherworld contested: cosmology, soteriology and ontology in Sunni theology and philosophy

6. Otherworlds apart: Shii visions of paradise and hell

7. The otherworld within: paradise and hell in Islamic mysticism

8. Eschatology now: paradise and hell in Muslim topography, architecture and ritual