| Description |
1 online resource |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index. |
| Contents |
The garden, the fire, and Islamic origins -- Visions of the afterworld -- Material culture and an Islamic ethic -- Otherworldly landscapes and earthly realities -- Humanity, servants, and companions -- Individualized gardens and expanding fires -- Legacy of gardens -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Provides an analysis of how visions of the Garden and the Fire, or Heaven and Hell, within Sunni Islam changed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, and looks at how Muslims used images to represent the Garden on Earth from the seventh to the nineteenth century. |
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Islamic eschatology.
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Paradise -- Islam.
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Hell -- Islam.
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Islamic philosophy.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
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Hiernamaals.
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Ethik.
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Hölle.
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Islam.
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Jenseits.
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Jenseitsglaube.
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Paradies.
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Sachkultur.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231140843 0231140843 (DLC) 2008029681 |
| Standard No. |
(YBP)9364706 |
| ISBN |
0231511833 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231511834 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
EB00639543 Recorded Books |
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