TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archer,George
TI  - A Place Between Two Places: The Quranic Barzakh 
T2  - Islamic History and Thought
SN  - 9781463206123
U1  - 297.2/3 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONVENTIONS --; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION, OR "THAT SECOND KINGDOM" --; CHAPTER II. METHOD, OR "THE BARRIER BETWEEN US AND OUR ANCESTORS" --; CHAPTER III. AN EXCAVATION OF THE CAVE --; CHAPTER IV. SLEEP CYCLES: THE INTRA-QURʾĀNIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE BARZAKH --; CHAPTER V. DREAMS OF MUḤAMMAD: THE MEDIEVAL BARZAKH --; CHAPTER VI. ORALITY TRANSLATION, SOUL-SLEEP, AND THE MONOTHEISTIC IMAGINATION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND WORKS CITED --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - For believers in a resurrection of the body, there arises the question of what happens after death but before the Last Day: the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the intermediate state is the barzakh. It is a fantastical and frightening time in the grave. The present study will examine where the belief in the barzakh comes from through a study of the Qur'an
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463237097
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