Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad's study works comparatively across the major Sunni and Shia legal schools, documenting where their teaching on death, the afterlife and burial ritual actually converges and where it diverges rather than presenting one school's position as Islamic teaching generally. That explicit comparative method, naming specific points of school-by-school difference, is the study's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced further scholarly response to the authors' specific claims since 2002. Use it for established facts about Islamic eschatology and death ritual generally; a claim needing one specific school's own fine legal ruling needs a source dedicated to that school.
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Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad's study working comparatively across the major Sunni and Shia legal schools, documenting where their teaching on death, the afterlife and burial ritual actually converges and diverges, rather than presenting one school's position as Islamic teaching generally. NotesJane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad's standard scholarly study of Islamic teaching on death, the afterlife and resurrection, covering doctrine and burial ritual across the major Sunni and Shia legal schools. Use for established facts about Islamic eschatology and death ritual generally; a comparative scholarly study, so a claim specific to one legal school's own ruling should be checked against a source for that school where fine legal detail is needed.
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AuthorJane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2002
URLhttps://archive.org/details/islamicunderstan0000smit
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Claims Backed By This Source (156 claims)
This source backs 156 claims across the atlas. As facts: 81 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 43 holds, 1 held Differently. Plus 28 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Rituals, 39 claims: 30 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 4 general references.
- Denominations, 33 claims: 26 holds, 7 general references.
- Doctrines, 28 claims: 23 well-attested, 5 general references.
- Schools of Religious Law, 20 claims: 14 holds, 1 held Differently, 5 general references.
- Figures, 12 claims: 8 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Articles, 9 claims: 9 well-attested.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Mythical Creatures, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Realms, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 general references.
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