The Prophet's ascension
Subtitle: cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'raj tales
By: edited by Christiane Gruber and Frederick Colby.
Contributors: Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-; Colby, Frederick Stephen, 1969-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington and Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780253353610
Subjects: Muḥammad, -- Prophet, -- d. 632 -- Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj; Islamic legends -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The formation of miʻrāj narratives as missionary texts; title: Tours of hell and punishments of sinners miʻrāj narratives: use and; title: Meaning of eschatology in Muḥammad's ascension / Roberto Tottoli; title: The Ilkhanid miʻrājnāma as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual / Christiane Gruber; title: The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era miʻrājnāma: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text / Maria Subtelny; title: The Chaghatay miʻrājnāma attributed to Ḥakīm Süleymān Ata: a missionary text from the twelfth or thirteenth century preserved in modern manuscripts / Max Scherberger; title: Contesting the eschaton in medieval Iberia: the polemical intersection of Beatus of Liébana's commentary on the apocalypse and the Prophet's miʻrājnāma / Heather M. Coffey; title: The adaptation of miʻrāj narratives in esoteric and literary contexts: Early Imami Shi'i narratives and contestation over intimate colloquy scenes in Muḥammad's miʻrāj / Frederick S. Colby; title: Prophetic ascent and the initiatory ascent in Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān's Asās al-ta'wīl / Elizabeth R. Alexandrin; title: Miʻrāj 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; title: Pious journey, sacred desire: observations on the miʻrāj in early Anatolian Turkish verse narratives / Selim S. Kuru; title: Skepticism and forgiveness: the miʻrāc in Veysī's Dürretü t-; title: Tāc / Gottfried Hagen; title: Mystical love, prophetic compassion, and ethics: an ascension narrative in the Medieval Bengali nabīvaṃśa of Saiyad Sultān / Ayesha Irani; title: Persian illustrated lithographed books on the miʻrāj: improving children's Shi'i beliefs in the Qajar period / Ali Boozari; title: The miʻrāj as performance and ritual: Reading the miʻrāj account as a theatrical performance: the case of; title: Maʻārij al-nubuwwa / Özgen Felek; title: Reworking the ascension in Ottoman lands: an eighteenth-century miʻrājnāma in Greek from Epirus / Phokion P. Kotzageorgis; title: Shāh Ismāʻīl Ṣafevī and the miʻrāj: Ḥaṭā'ī's vision of a sacred assembly / Amelia Gallagher; title: When the prophet went on the miraç he saw a lion on the road: the miraç in the Alevi-Bektaşi tradition / Vernon Schubel.