"The book of tribulations": the Syrian Muslim apocalyptic tradition

The Book of Tribulations is the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive, and as such has considerable value as a primary text. It is unique in its importance for Islamic history: focusing upon the central Syrian city of Hims, it gives us a picture of the personalities of the city, the t...

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Subtitles:Syrian Muslim apocalyptic tradition
Main Author: Nuʿaim Ibn-Ḥammād al-H̱uzāʿī -844 (Author)
Contributors: Cook, David 1966- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Edinburgh studies in Islamic apocalypticism and eschatology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam / Eschatology / Homs (Syria)
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Islamic eschatology Early works to 1800
B Hadith
B Hadith Early works to 1800
B Islam Sources
B Early works
B End of the world (Islam) Early works to 1800
B End of the world (Islam)
B Islamic eschatology