The Prophet's ascension : cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales /
The Prophet's ascension : cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales / [print]
edited by Christiane Gruber and Frederick Colby.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2010.
- xi, 389 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
The formation of miraj narratives as missionary texts -- Tours of hell and punishments of sinners in miraj narratives: use and meaning of eschatology in Muhammad's ascension The Ilkhanid mirajnama as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era mirajnama: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text The Chaghatay mirajnama attributed to Hakim Suleyman Ata: a missionary text from the twelfth or thirteenth century preserved in modern manuscripts Contesting the eschaton in medieval Iberia: the polemical intersection of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the apocalypse and the Prophet's mirajnama The adaptation of miraj narratives in esoteric and literary contexts -- The early Imami Shi'i narratives and contestation over intimate colloquy scenes in Muhammad's miraj Prophetic ascent and the initiatory ascent in Qadi al-Numan's Asas al-ta'wil Miraj and the language of legitimation in the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophical traditions: a case study of Avicenna and Abraham ibn Ezra Pious journey, sacred desire: observations on the miraj in early Anatolian Turkish verse narratives Skepticism and forgiveness: the mirac in Veysi's Durretu t-tac Mystical love, prophetic compassion, and ethics: an ascension narrative in the medieval Bengali Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan Persian illustrated lithographed books on the miraj: improving children's Shi'i beliefs in the Qajar period The miraj as performance and ritual -- Reading the miraj account as a theatrical performance: the case of -- Maarij al-nubuwwa/ Reworking the ascension in Ottoman lands: an eighteenth-century mirajnama in Greek from Epirus Sah Ismail Safevi and the miraj: Hata'i's vision of a sacred assembly When the prophet went on the mirac he saw a lion on the road: the mirac in the Alevi-Bektasi tradition Roberto Tottoli -- Christiane Gruber -- Maria Subtelny -- Max Scherberger -- Heather M. Coffey -- Frederick Colby -- Elizabeth R. Alexandrin -- Aaron W. Hughes -- Selim S. Kuru -- Gottfried Hagen -- Ayesha Irani -- Ali Boozari -- Ozgen Felek -- Phokion P. Kotzageorgis -- Amelia Gallagher -- Vernon Schubel.
9780253353610
2009021910
GBA992228 bnb
015375801 Uk
Muhammad, Prophet, -632 --Isra and Miraj.
BP166 BP166.C686.P767 2010
The formation of miraj narratives as missionary texts -- Tours of hell and punishments of sinners in miraj narratives: use and meaning of eschatology in Muhammad's ascension The Ilkhanid mirajnama as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era mirajnama: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text The Chaghatay mirajnama attributed to Hakim Suleyman Ata: a missionary text from the twelfth or thirteenth century preserved in modern manuscripts Contesting the eschaton in medieval Iberia: the polemical intersection of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the apocalypse and the Prophet's mirajnama The adaptation of miraj narratives in esoteric and literary contexts -- The early Imami Shi'i narratives and contestation over intimate colloquy scenes in Muhammad's miraj Prophetic ascent and the initiatory ascent in Qadi al-Numan's Asas al-ta'wil Miraj and the language of legitimation in the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophical traditions: a case study of Avicenna and Abraham ibn Ezra Pious journey, sacred desire: observations on the miraj in early Anatolian Turkish verse narratives Skepticism and forgiveness: the mirac in Veysi's Durretu t-tac Mystical love, prophetic compassion, and ethics: an ascension narrative in the medieval Bengali Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan Persian illustrated lithographed books on the miraj: improving children's Shi'i beliefs in the Qajar period The miraj as performance and ritual -- Reading the miraj account as a theatrical performance: the case of -- Maarij al-nubuwwa/ Reworking the ascension in Ottoman lands: an eighteenth-century mirajnama in Greek from Epirus Sah Ismail Safevi and the miraj: Hata'i's vision of a sacred assembly When the prophet went on the mirac he saw a lion on the road: the mirac in the Alevi-Bektasi tradition Roberto Tottoli -- Christiane Gruber -- Maria Subtelny -- Max Scherberger -- Heather M. Coffey -- Frederick Colby -- Elizabeth R. Alexandrin -- Aaron W. Hughes -- Selim S. Kuru -- Gottfried Hagen -- Ayesha Irani -- Ali Boozari -- Ozgen Felek -- Phokion P. Kotzageorgis -- Amelia Gallagher -- Vernon Schubel.
9780253353610
2009021910
GBA992228 bnb
015375801 Uk
Muhammad, Prophet, -632 --Isra and Miraj.
BP166 BP166.C686.P767 2010