An edition of The Prophet's ascension
(2009)
The Prophet's ascension
cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales
by Christiane J. Gruber and Frederick Stephen Colby
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Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj, Islamic legends, History and criticism, Islamic Legends, Islamische Mission, Al- Miʻrāǧ, Himmelfahrt, Islamiska legender, Al Mi'rāǧ, Muḥammad, Isrāʼ et Miʻrāǧ, Kultur, Légendes islamiques, Miʻrāǧ, Histoire et critique, Ikonographie, Himmelsreise, Motiv, Miʻrāǧnāma, Islamische Literaturen, Islamische Literatur, Islam, Muhammad, prophet, -632, Legends, history and criticism, Al- Mi°råaégPeople
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The Prophet's ascension: cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales
2009, Indiana University Press
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The Prophet's ascension: cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales
2009, Indiana University Press
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Table of Contents
The formation of miʻrāj narratives as missionary texts
Tours of hell and punishments of sinners 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: Early Imami Shi'i narratives and contestation over intimate colloquy scenes in Muḥammad's miʻrāj / Frederick S. 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: Ḥaṭā'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.
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