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Notes
1. William C. Chittick, ‘‘Death and the world of imagination: Ibn ‘Arabı’s
eschatology’’, Muslim World 78 (1988), p. 51.
2. Ibid., passim; cf. Abu H _
amid al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error,
tr. W. Montgomery Watt as The Faith and Practice of al-Ghazzali
(London, 1953), p. 24.
3. Cf. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill,
NC, 1975), p. 189.
4. Ibn Sına, al-Risala al-Ad _
h _
awiyya, tr. Francesca Lucchetta as Epistola
sulla vita futura (Padua, 1969), p. 19.
5. Bukharı, Jana’iz, 80.
6. Abu H _
amid al-Ghazalı, The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife:
Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences, tr. T. J. Winter
(Cambridge, 1989), pp. 135–47.
7. A. J. Wensinck, The Muslim Creed: Its Genesis and Historical
Development (Cambridge, 1932), pp. 117–21; Ragnar Eklund, Life
between Death and Resurrection according to Islam (Uppsala, 1941);
‘Abd Allah al-Bayd _
awı, T _
awali‘ al-anwar min mat _
ali‘ al-anz _
ar, tr.by
Edwin E. Calverley and James W. Pollock, as Nature, Man and God in
Medieval Islam (Leiden, 2002), ii, pp.1078–81.
8. Qur’an 36:66; 37:23–4; 101:6–11; cf. Ghazalı, Remembrance,
pp. 217–18.
9. Ibid., pp. 222, 237; cf. T. O’Shaughnessy, ‘The seven names for hell in the
Qur’an’’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24
(1961), pp. 444–69.
10. Sevener Fat _
imid and Isma‘ılı theology upholds the need for a living
guide (imam) to be present in the community, although some
indications of cyclic fulfilment or high points are present.
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