Wine or Pus for the Afterlife: Eating and Drinking in the Muslim Hereafter: Sofia University Lecture

A lecture delivered to MA students and Erasmus studies at the Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University invited by Associate Professor Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova on May 18th, 15:15-16:30.

Contents

  • Past and Present
  • Future, Winding the Clock Forward
  • The Voice of Scripture
  • Example of Sura Al-Insān
  • Heavenly Food
  • Heavenly Drink
  • The Otherworldly Transmutation: Wine
  • A Digression
  • Hell: Food, Drink, the Zaqqūm Tree
  • The Traditions Speaks
  • Paradise & Hell, Food & Drink: Associative Mapping

Download all slides here (*.pdf).