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Table of contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Introducing hell in Islamic Studies Christian Lange Part I: Quranic netherworlds 2. The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran Tommaso Tesei 3. From space to place: The Quranic infernalization of the jinn Simon O'Meara 4. Revisiting hell's angels in the Quran Christian Lange Part II: Hell in early and medieval Islam 5. Locating hell in early renunciant literature Christopher Melchert 6. Fire in the upper heavens: Locating hell in Middle Period narratives of Muhammad's Ascension Frederick Colby 7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitab al-'Azama Wim Raven Part III: Theological and mystical aspects 8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism Mohammad Hassan Khalil 9. Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hell Samuela Pagani 10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazir (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire Jon Hoover Part IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions 11. Isma'ili-Shi'i visions of hell: From the spiritual torment of the Fatimids to the Tayyibi rock of Sijjin Daniel de Smet 12. The Morisco hell: The significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature Roberto Tottoli 13. Curse signs: The artful rhetoric of hell in Safavid Iran Christiane Gruber 14. Literature and religious controversy: The vision of hell in Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi's Thawra fi l-jahim Richard van Leeuwen General index List of contributors

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