An edition of The Prophet's ascension
(2010)
The Prophet's ascension
cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'rāj tales
by Christiane J. Gruber
Share
×Close
This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Subjects
Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj, Islamic legends, History and criticismPeople
Muḥammad Prophet (d. 632)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
The Prophet's ascension: cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'rāj tales
2010, Indiana University Press
in English
0253353610 9780253353610
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
The formation of miʻrāj narratives as missionary texts
Tours of hell and punishments of sinners in miʻrāj narratives: use and meaning of eschatology in Muḥammad's ascension / Roberto Tottoli
The Ilkhanid miʻrājnāma as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual / Christiane Gruber
The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era miʻrājnāma: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text / Maria Subtelny
The Chaghatay miʻrājnāma attributed to Ḥakīm Süleymān Ata: a missionary text from the twelfth or thirteenth century preserved in modern manuscripts / Max Scherberger
Contesting the eschaton in medieval Iberia: the polemical intersection of Beatus of Liébana's commentary on the apocalypse and the Prophet's miʻrājnāma / Heather M. Coffey
The adaptation of miʻrāj narratives in esoteric and literary contexts
The early Imami Shi'i narratives and contestation over intimate colloquy scenes in Muḥammad's miʻrāj / Frederick Colby
Prophetic ascent and the initiatory ascent in Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān's Asās al-ta'wīl / Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Miʻrāj and the language of legitimation in the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophical traditions: a case study of Avicenna and Abraham ibn Ezra / Aaron W. Hughes
Pious journey, sacred desire: observations on the miʻrāj in early Anatolian Turkish verse narratives / Selim S. Kuru
Skepticism and forgiveness: the miʻrāc in Veysī's Dürretü t-tāc / Gottfried Hagen
Mystical love, prophetic compassion, and ethics: an ascension narrative in the medieval Bengali Nabīvaṃśa of Saiyad Sultān / Ayesha Irani
Persian illustrated lithographed books on the miʻrāj: improving children's Shi'i beliefs in the Qajar period / Ali Boozari
The miʻrāj as performance and ritual
Reading the miʻrāj account as a theatrical performance: the case of
Maʻārij al-nubuwwa / Özgen Felek
Reworking the ascension in Ottoman lands: an eighteenth-century miʻrājnāma in Greek from Epirus / Phokion P. Kotzageorgis
Shāh Ismāʻīl Ṣafevī and the miʻrāj: Haṭā'ī's vision of a sacred assembly / Amelia Gallagher
When the prophet went on the miraç he saw a lion on the road: the miraç in the Alevi-Bektaşi tradition / Vernon Schubel.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-367) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
| January 6, 2011 | Created by ImportBot | initial import |