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Death in Islam

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Body disposal; Burial; Death; Death in the eastern religions

Definition

In Islam, death is the transition from life in this world to a truer eternal life in the next world.

Introduction

A nearly universal aspect of human existence addressed by religion is that of death and its meaning. In order to fathom the concept of death from an Islamic perspective, one should have an understanding of what Islam actually is. There are various definitions and descriptions of Islam. Rather than providing a single definition, one can infer what Islam is, based on what Muslims have made of it in different cultural contexts, social statuses, and historical circumstances. Perhaps, the most robust way to introduce Islam is Quran, the holy book of Islam, which is believed to be a collection of revelations from Allah(the Arabic for “God”) as delivered via the angel Gabriel to Muhammad while he was living in western Arabian towns of Mecca and Medina. The Quran consists of 114 chapters and over...

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  1. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Atari

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  1. Mohammad Atari
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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

  3. Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Lisa L M Welling

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Atari, M. (2016). Death in Islam. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_544-1

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