An edition of The intermediate worlds of angels (2019)

The intermediate worlds of angels

Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts

The intermediate worlds of angels
Sara Kuehn, Stefan Leder, Hans ...
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The intermediate worlds of angels

Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts

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The intermediate worlds of angels: Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts
2019, Orient-Institut, Ergon Verlag in Kommission, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
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Table of Contents

Les origines hellénistiques de la représentation des anges dans le Christianisme ancien / Nada Hélou
Les anges de l'Arabie antique / Christian Robin
Paleo-Muslim angels and other preternatural beings / Aziz al-Azmeh
"Panangelon" : angelology and its relation to polytheism : a case study exploring meteorological angels in Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Al-Ḥabā'ik fī akhbār al-malā'ik / Stephen Burge
The primordial cycle revisited : Adam, Eve, and the celestial beings / Sara Kuehn
Angelic anagogy : silver and matter's mire in late Antique Christianity / Glenn Peers
Création et êtres angéliques d'après un manuscrit arabe inédit : l'Hexaémeron du Pseudo-Épiphane de Salamine / Marlène Kanaan
Where angels dwell : uranography in Jewish-Christian Antiquity / Johann Hafner
Uniting fire and snow : representations and interpretations of the wondrous angel 'Ḥabīb' in medieval versions of Muḥammad's ascension / Frederick Colby
The carriers of the throne of God : Islamic traditions between Sunnī angelology and Shī'ī visions / Roberto Tottoli
"As the angels stretch out their hands" (Qur'ān 6:93) : the work of heavenly agents according to Muslim eschatology / Sebastian Günther
The Ikhwān as-Ṣafā' on angels and spiritual beings / Godefroid de Callatay
Angels as part of human civilisation : Ibn Khaldūn's conciliating approach / Stefan Leder
Zakariyyā' al-Qazwīnī on the inhabitants of the supralunar world : from the first Persian version (659/1260-61) to the second Arabic redaction (678/1279-80) / Karin Rührdanz
L'ange et le roi dans la culture visuelle de l'Orient médiéval : le cas des miniatures du Shahnāma de Firdawsī de Ṭūs / Anna Caiozzo.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 English, 4 French contributions.

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Beirut, Baden-Baden
Series
Beiruter Texte und Studien -- Band 114, Beiruter Texte und Studien -- Bd. 114.
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Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts
Copyright Date
2019

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BP166.89 .I584 2019

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430 pages
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430

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OL44071599M
ISBN 10
3956506227
ISBN 13
9783956506222
OCLC/WorldCat
1135808066
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1199563536

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