The intermediate worlds of angels
Subtitle: Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts
By: edited by Sara Kuehn, Stefan Leder, Hans-Peter Pökel
Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien -- Band 114; Beiruter Texte und Studien -- Bd. 114.
Publisher: Orient-Institut; Ergon Verlag in Kommission, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Beirut; Baden-Baden
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9783956506222
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Angels; Congresses; Islam; Angels in art
Other titles: Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 English, 4 French contributions.
Table of contents: title: Les origines hellénistiques de la représentation des anges dans le Christianisme ancien / Nada Hélou; title: Les anges de l'Arabie antique / Christian Robin; title: Paleo-Muslim angels and other preternatural beings / Aziz al-Azmeh; title: "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; title: The primordial cycle revisited : Adam, Eve, and the celestial beings / Sara Kuehn; title: Angelic anagogy : silver and matter's mire in late Antique Christianity / Glenn Peers; title: Création et êtres angéliques d'après un manuscrit arabe inédit : l'Hexaémeron du Pseudo-Épiphane de Salamine / Marlène Kanaan; title: Where angels dwell : uranography in Jewish-Christian Antiquity / Johann Hafner; title: Uniting fire and snow : representations and interpretations of the wondrous angel 'Ḥabīb' in medieval versions of Muḥammad's ascension / Frederick Colby; title: The carriers of the throne of God : Islamic traditions between Sunnī angelology and Shī'ī visions / Roberto Tottoli; title: "As the angels stretch out their hands" (Qur'ān 6:93) : the work of heavenly agents according to Muslim eschatology / Sebastian Günther; title: The Ikhwān as-Ṣafā' on angels and spiritual beings / Godefroid de Callatay; title: Angels as part of human civilisation : Ibn Khaldūn's conciliating approach / Stefan Leder; title: 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; title: 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.