The Prophet's ascension : cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales / edited by Christiane Gruber and Frederick Colby. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2010.Description: xi, 389 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780253353610
- BP166
- BP166.C686.P767 2010
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) | G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION | Non-fiction | BP166.57.P76 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001380522 |
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.
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