The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection

by Smith, Jane Idelman; Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck

• ISBN13: 9780195156492
• ISBN10: 0195156498
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book provides a thorough and accessible guide to belief about the afterlife in the Sunni Muslim tradition. Drawing on the Qur'an, traditions, creeds, and theological commentaries, as well as interviews with Muslim clerics, the authors offer an overview of the Islamic eschatological narrative, describing the understanding of events beginning with the death of the individual and ending with habitation in the final abodes of recompense.

Author Biography

Jane Idleman Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	vii
Preface	xi
Considerations of God, Man, Time, and Eternity	1	(30)
From Death to Resurrection: Classical Islam	31	(32)
The Eschaton, the Judgment, and the Final Dispensation: Classical Islam	63	(36)
From Death to Resurrection: Modern Islam	99	(28)
The Eschaton, the Judgment, and the Final Dispensation: Modern Islam	127	(20)
Appendix A Evidence of Afterlife Concerns the Pre-Islamic Arabia	147	(10)
Appendix B The Special Case of Women and Children in the Afterlife	157	(26)
Appendix C The Cult of Saints	183	(10)
Glossary of Arabic Terms	193	(4)
Notes	197	(48)
Bibliography	245	(10)
Index	255