“Paradise is at the Feet of Mothers”: The Ḥurūfī Road

In: Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
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Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
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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

Series:  Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 136
Cover Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
E-Book ISBN:
9789004333154
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2017
Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought
Preliminary Material
Introduction
Paradise Lost
The Path to Paradise from an Islamic Viewpoint
Quranic Paradise: How to Get to Paradise and What to Expect There
Paradise as a Quranic Discourse: Late Antique Foundations and Early Quranic Developments
Paradise in the Quran and the Music of Apocalypse
Paradise and Nature in the Quran and Pre-Islamic Poetry
Dying in the Path of God: Reading Martyrdom and Moral Excellence in the Quran
The Poetics of Islamic Eschatology: Narrative, Personification, and Colors in Muslim Discourse
“Reclining upon Couches in the Shade” (Q 35:56): Quranic Imagery in Rationalist Exegesis
Delights in Paradise: A Comparative Survey of Heavenly Food and Drink in the Quran
Strategies for Paradise: Paradise Virgins and Utopia
Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the Wildān, Ghilmān, and Ḥūr
“Are Men the Majority in Paradise, or Women?” Constructing Gender and Communal Boundaries in Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj’s (d. 261/875) Kitāb al-Janna
The ‘Eight Gates of Paradise’ Tradition in Islam: A Genealogical and Structural Study
Temporary Hellfire Punishment and the Making of Sunni Orthodoxy
Paradise and Hell in the Kitāb al-Jihād of ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir al-Sulamī (d. 500/1106)
Al-Ghazālī on Resurrection and the Road to Paradise
Sleepless in Paradise: Lying in State between This World and the Next
Paradise in Islamic Philosophy
The Orthodox Conception of the Hereafter: Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī’s (d. 793/1390) Examination of Some Muʿtazilī and Philosophical Objections
‘Being-Towards-Resurrectionʼ: Mullā Ṣadrā’s Critique of Suhrawardī’s Eschatology
A Philosopher’s Itinerary for the Afterlife: Mullā Ṣadrā on Paths to Felicity
Muslim Visuality and the Visibility of Paradise and the World
A Garden beyond the Garden: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Perspective on Paradise
Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Path to God and the Concept of Martyrdom in ʿAṭṭār’s Conference of the Birds
“And the Earth will Shine with the Light of its Lord” (Q 39:69): Qāʾim and qiyāma in Shiʿi Islam
Paradise as the Abode of Pure Knowledge: Reconsidering al-Muʾayyad’s “Ismaʿili Neoplatonism”
Notions of Paradise in the Ismaʿili Works of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī
Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Construction of Authority in Medieval Ismaʿilism
Just a Step away from Paradise: Barzakh in the Ahl-i Ḥaqq Teachings
“Paradise is at the Feet of Mothers”: The Ḥurūfī Road
Which Road to Paradise? The Controversy of Reincarnation in Islamic Thought
Volume 2: Continuity and Change. The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World
Preliminary Material
A Typology of Eschatological Concepts
The “World” in its Eschatological Dimension in East-Syrian Synodical Records
St. Ephraem the Syrian, the Quran, and the Grapevines of Paradise: An Essay in Comparative Eschatology
Paradise? America! The Metaphor of Paradise in the Context of the Iraqi-Christian Migration
The Characteristics of Paradise (Ṣifat al-Janna): A Genre of Eschatological Literature in Medieval Islam
“Roads to Paradise” in Risālat al-ghufrān of the Arab Thinker al-Maʿarrī
Muslim Eschatology and the Ascension of the Prophet Muḥammad: Describing Paradise in Miʿrāj Traditions and Literature
An Islamic Paradiso in a Medieval Christian Poem? Dante’s Divine Comedy Revisited
Paradise, Alexander the Great and the Arabian Nights: Some New Insights Based on an Unpublished Manuscript
Paradise in an Islamic ʿAjāʾib Work: The Delight of Onlookers and the Signs for Investigators of Marʿī b. Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1033/1624)
Expulsion from Paradise: Granada in Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s The Granada Trilogy (1994–8) and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ, Paradise and the Fatimids
The Chār Muḥammad Inscription, Shafāʿa, and the Mamluk Qubbat al-Manṣūriyya

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