A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh

A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh

by George Archer
A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh

A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh

by George Archer

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Overview

What happens after death but before the final resurrection? This is the intermediate state. For most Muslims, it is called the barzakh, and it is a fantastical and frightening time in the grave. Throughout history and today this belief has been discussed and expressed in many forms: from Ṣūfī dreamscapes to theological tests of orthodoxy. But where does the barzakh come from first? In A Place Between Two Places: The Qurʾānic Barzakh, George Archer reconstructs the barzakh's early history. Analyzing sixteen of the Qurʾān's sūras in search of oral formulae, subtextual hints, and concentric parallelisms, the early barzakh is exposed as a response to the saint cults of late antiquity, and most especially, the cult of the divine Christ. From here, the Qurʾānic vision of the barzakh is traced forward through later prophetic biographies, Islamic architecture, and the ḥadīth literature in order to show how the barzakh developed into the distinctive eschatological claims of the Islamic Middle Ages.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781463239879
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Publication date: 01/27/2020
Series: Islamic History and Thought , #1
Pages: 472
Sales rank: 822,773
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)
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