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Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam

Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today

Special issue of Archiv Orientalni 83:3 (2015)

Guest Editors

Bronislav Ostřanský

Miroslav Melčák

[Archív Orientální, 83:3] 2015. iv, 228 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Distributed | Language: Czech

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue on Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today Bronislav Ostřanský and Miroslav Melčák	381–384
Articles
Fanā’ al-Nār Within Early Kalām and Mysticism: An Analysis Covering the Eighth and Ninth Centuries Marco Demichelis	385–410
Narrative Reconfigurations of Islamic Eschatological Signs: The Portents of the “Hour” in Grey Literature and on the Internet Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf and Lisa Maria Franke	411–437
Death and the Hereafter in Islamic Tradition According to al-Kisā’ī Mária Lacináková	439–474
The Sufi Journey to the Next World: The Sepulchral Symbolism of Muslim Mystics, Its Context and Interpretations Bronislav Ostřanský	475–500
The Veneration and Visitation of the Graves of Saints in Soviet Central Asia. Insights from the Southern Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan Věra Exnerová	501–536
How to Do a Burial Right: Negotiations of Identity, Religious Practice and the State Jeanine Dağyeli	537–567
End of Islam, End of Time. An Eschatological Reading of Yezidism Petr Kubálek	569–598
Our Contributors	599–601
Contents of Volume 83 (2015)	603–604

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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General