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The Prophet's ascension : cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'rāj tales / edited by Christiane Gruber and Frederick Colby.
- Title
- The Prophet's ascension : cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic mi'rāj tales / edited by Christiane Gruber and Frederick Colby.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | BP166.57 .P76 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 389 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-367) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The formation of miʻrāj narratives as missionary texts -- Tours of hell and punishments of sinners in miʻrāj narratives: use and meaning of eschatology in Muḥammad's ascension / Roberto Tottoli -- The Ilkhanid miʻrājnāma as an illustrated Sunni prayer manual / Christiane Gruber -- The Jews at the edge of the world in a Timurid-era miʻrājnāma: the islamic ascension narrative as missionary text / Maria Subtelny -- The Chaghatay miʻrājnāma attributed to Ḥakīm Süleymān Ata: a missionary text from the twelfth or thirteenth century preserved in modern manuscripts / Max Scherberger -- 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 -- The adaptation of miʻrāj narratives in esoteric and literary contexts --
- ISBN
- 9780253353610 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253353610 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009021910
- OCLC
- 313659359
- SCSB-10195113
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library