About this religious work
Muḥammad’s Ascension in Muslim Spain : Elaborations and Contestations of the Miʿrāj in the Eleventh- to Twelfth-Century Maghrib by Frederick S. Colby is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad's heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain. This book demonstrates how Muhammad's heavenly journey, as discussed throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the western Mediterranean, was the site both of polemical religious debates and of a rich and varied tradition of mystical commentary. Out of these fertile contexts sprang two very influential sets of ascension discourses: First
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Frederick S. Colby
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798855800760
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Islamic History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25