Final Report Summary - HHIT (The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions)
Overall, the project has contributed to nuancing common cliches regarding the Muslim belief in the afterlife. Popular tropes and prejudices, such as concern the 72 virgins of paradise, can now be much more effectively be questioned on the basis of a much broader understanding of what the afterlife is about according to a variety of Muslim currents of thought. On a scholarly level, the dominant narrative of Islam as a profoundly transcendentalist religion, as opposed to a religion that allows for divine immanence in creation, has been shown to be a misperception, at least as far as dominant modes of eschatological thinking in Islam are concerned.