Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection

Edited by Jane Idleman Smith & Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Paperback : 9780873955072, 276 pages, June 1981
Hardcover : 9780873955065, 276 pages, June 1981

Table of contents

Preface

One. Considerations of God, Man, Time, and Eternity
Two. From Death to Resurrection: Classical Islam
Three. The Eschaton, the Judgment, and the Final Dispensation: Classical Islam
Four. From Death to Resurrection: Modern Islam
Five. The Eschaton, the Judgment, and the Final Dispensation: Modern Islam

Appendix A. Evidence of Afterlife Concerns in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Appendix B. The Special Case of Women and Children in the Afterlife
Appendix C. The Cult of Saints

Glossary of Arabic Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index