Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought
Subtitle: Can Allah Save Us All?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 12, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350070240
Description: "Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought uses classical Islamic sources to trace the development of Islamic eschatology during the formative centuries of Islamic intellectual history. Marco Demichelis draws on classical Islamic scholars, including Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, to bring together concepts from Islamic philosophy, theology and mysticism including proto-Sufism to examine the interplay of these concepts between these traditions. The doctrines of salvation from Hell are examined in depth, in particular the theory of the annihilation of Hell, which proposes the idea that there will be a time when Hell will be empty and no longer inhabited. This is the first book to examine Islamic eschatology in the classical period, and adds to the growing scholarship on Islamic views on salvation and the eternity of Hell. It will be essential reading for scholars of Islamic intellectual history, theology, and comparative religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Can Allah Save Us All?