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Author | : Nerina Rustomji |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231140851 |
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Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of perfection. In tracking this transformation, Nerina Rustomji reveals the distinct material culture and aesthetic vocabulary Muslims developed to understand heaven and hell and identifies the communities and strategies of defense that took shape around the promise of a future world. Ideas of the afterworld profoundly influenced daily behaviors in Islamic society and gave rise to a code of ethics that encouraged abstinence from sumptuous objects, such as silver vessels and silk, so they could be appreciated later in heaven. Rustomji conducts a meticulous study of texts and images and carefully connects the landscape and social dynamics of the afterworld with earthly models and expectations. Male servants and female companions become otherworldly objects in the afterlife, and stories of rewards and punishment helped preachers promote religious reform. By employing material culture as a method of historical inquiry, Rustomji points to the reflections, discussions, and constructions that actively influenced Muslims' picture of the afterworld, culminating in a distinct religious aesthetic.
Author | : ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad Qāḍī |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aelfrida Tillyard |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290838764 |
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Author | : Ibn-Abī-Ṣāliḥ ʿAbd-al-Qādir al-Ǧīlānī |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Hell |
ISBN | : 9781842001202 |
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Author | : James H. Billington |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0765804719 |
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This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Author | : Aelfrida Tillyard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0295803525 |
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Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable contribution--breathtaking in the scope of its research and exhilarating to read. Pyne takes the reader on a journey through time, exploring the terrain of Europe and the uses and abuses of its lands as well as, through migration and conquest, many parts of the rest of the world. Whether he is discussing the Mediterranean region, Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, central Europe, or colonized islands; whether he is considering the impact of agriculture, forestry, or Enlightenment thinking, the author brings an unmatched insight to his subject. Vestal Fire takes its title from Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. But the book's title also suggests the strengths and limitations of Europe's peculiar conception of fire, and through fire, of its relationship to nature. Between the untamed fire of the wilderness and the tended fire of the hearth lies a never-ending dialectic in which human beings struggle to control natural forces and processes that in fact can sometimes be directed but never wholly dominated or contained.
Author | : Jennifer Raiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1631062565 |
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An authorized collection of more than two hundred color photos showcases the sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the annual celebration of artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert
Author | : Aelfrida Tillyard |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781341154560 |
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Author | : Christian Lange |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521506379 |
Download Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book covers the theological, philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell.