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The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the Shiʿi world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable.

Islamic eschatology --- Paradise --- Future punishment --- Islam --- Islamic eschatology. --- Paradise (Islam) --- Eschatology, Islamic --- Muslim eschatology --- Islam: theologie; doctrine --- 297.12 Islam: theologie; doctrine --- HISTORY / World. --- Eschatologie islamique --- Islam. --- 297.12 --- Endless punishment --- Eternal punishment --- Everlasting punishment --- Heaven --- Future life --- Punishment --- Retribution --- Eschatology --- Religious aspects

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Mages of Manhood asks the question: How have gay/queer men in Southeast Asia used images of paradise to construct homes for themselves and for the different ideas of manhood they represent? The book examines how three gay men in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore have deployed different ideas of "paradise" over the past century to create a sense of refuge and to dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For the disciplines of queer studies, gender studies, communication, and Southeast Asian studies, it provides (1) a "queer reading" of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turned Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state; (2) a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI, providing an analysis of his plays, and the subsequent resistance to those notions expressed through an erotic, architectural paradise called Babylon created by a post-World War II Thai named Khun Toc; and (3) an account and analysis of the "cyber-paradise" created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. The book examines their pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, the different types of gay spaces they created (geographic, architectural, online), and the political obstacles they have encountered. Because of its historical sweep and its focus on the relationship between gay men and ideas of Edenic space, it makes an important contribution to understanding gay/queer life in Southeast Asia.

Web sites for sexual minorities --- Paradise in art. --- Homosexuality and art. --- Gay men --- Paradise (Islam) in art --- Art and homosexuality --- Art --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Male homosexuals --- Urnings --- Gays --- Men --- Sexual minority Web sites --- Sexual minorities --- Social conditions. --- Khun Toc --- Koe, Stuart --- Spies, Walter --- Influence. --- Thailand --- Bali Island (Indonesia) --- Lesser Sunda Islands --- Civilization --- Western influences. --- In art. --- Bali (Indonesia : Province) --- Provinsi Bali (Indonesia) --- Propinsi Bali (Indonesia)