TY - BOOK AU - Gruber,Christiane J. AU - Colby,Frederick Stephen TI - The Prophet's ascension: cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales SN - 9780253353610 AV - BP166 PY - 2010/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Muhammad, N1 - 1 (pages 345-367) and index; 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; Roberto Tottoli --; The Ilkhanid mirajnama as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual; Christiane Gruber --; The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era mirajnama: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text; Maria Subtelny --; The Chaghatay mirajnama attributed to Hakim Suleyman 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 Liebana's commentary on the apocalypse and the Prophet's mirajnama; Heather M. Coffey --; 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; Frederick Colby --; Prophetic ascent and the initiatory ascent in Qadi al-Numan's Asas al-ta'wil; Elizabeth R. Alexandrin --; Miraj 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 miraj in early Anatolian Turkish verse narratives; Selim S. Kuru --; Skepticism and forgiveness: the mirac in Veysi's Durretu t-tac; Gottfried Hagen --; Mystical love, prophetic compassion, and ethics: an ascension narrative in the medieval Bengali Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan; Ayesha Irani --; Persian illustrated lithographed books on the miraj: improving children's Shi'i beliefs in the Qajar period; Ali Boozari --; The miraj as performance and ritual --; Reading the miraj account as a theatrical performance: the case of --; Maarij al-nubuwwa; Ozgen Felek --; Reworking the ascension in Ottoman lands: an eighteenth-century mirajnama in Greek from Epirus; Phokion P. Kotzageorgis --; Sah Ismail Safevi and the miraj: Hata'i's vision of a sacred assembly; Amelia Gallagher --; When the prophet went on the mirac he saw a lion on the road: the mirac in the Alevi-Bektasi tradition; Vernon Schubel; 2 UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018884795&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -