Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of perfection. In tracking this transformation, Nerina Rustomji reveals the distinct material culture and aesthetic vocabulary Muslims developed to understand heaven and hell and identifies the communities and strategies of defense that took shape around the promise of a future world.Ideas of the afterworld profoundly influenced daily behaviors in Islamic society and gave rise to a code of ethics that encouraged abstinence from sumptuous objects, such as silver vessels and silk, so they could be appreciated later in heaven. Rustomji conducts a meticulous study of texts and images and carefully connects the landscape and social dynamics of the afterworld with earthly models and expectations. Male servants and female companions become otherworldly objects in the afterlife, and stories of rewards and punishment helped preachers promote religious reform. By employing material culture as a method of historical inquiry, Rustomji points to the reflections, discussions, and constructions that actively influenced Muslims' picture of the afterworld, culminating in a distinct religious aesthetic.

Americans are anxious about the future--the world's and their own. In a riveting book about the dramatic changes that will transform the world as we know it, Rosenberg explains the enormous political, economic, and spiritual changes that are underway in the world's most important countries. Drawing on his experience in Washington, exclusive interviews with world leaders, and his own astute political acumen, this evangelical Christian of Orthodox Jewish heritage takes readers on an unforgettable journey through prophecy and current events into the future of Iraq after Saddam, Russia after Communism, Israel after Arafat, and Christianity after radical Islam. He answers why these changes are happening, what they mean, and how they will impact your life--from gas prices to your bank account.

Product Description: This work traces the origins of apocalyptic prophecy in Christianity and Islam through in-depth examinations of several texts found within the Bible, the Quran, and the Hadith. The author contends that Christianity and Islam, often seen as two of the primary fundamentalist and proselytizing world faiths, remain pitted against each other in an ongoing struggle to impose their religious ideology on the rest of the world through either force or persuasion...read more

In his first nonfiction work, a best-selling author delves into the future of Iraq after Saddam, Russia after Communism, Israel after Arafat, and Christianity after radical Islam, using faith and Scripture as a guide to understanding the past and future.

Product Description: Based on extensive research of Muslims, Islamic teachers and Imams over two decades and 10 years of living among them, Ralph Stice believes that Islam will play a central role in the End Times. Despite our government’s best efforts to halt terrorism, it will fail because God will use Islam in His larger purpose of bringing world history to a close...read more

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This book provides a thorough and accessible guide to belief about the afterlife in the Sunni Muslim tradition. Drawing on the Qur'an, traditions, creeds, and theological commentaries, as well as interviews with Muslim clerics, the authors offer an overview of the Islamic eschatological narrative, describing the understanding of events beginning with the death of the individual and ending with habitation in the final abodes of recompense. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is a collection of letters and treatises by Bediuzzaman about resurrection and its basis in Islam. It includes the famous 10th Word from the book The Words.

Product Description: Basing himself on Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur, Ali Unal presents a scientific and logical argument for the validity of one of religion's main elements of faith: belief in the resurrection and the afterlife. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)