Angels In Islam (Suyuti’s Arrangement Of The Traditions About Angels) pdf

Angels In Islam (Suyuti’s Arrangement Of The Traditions About Angels)

Angels In Islam

A Commentary with Selected Translations of 

Jalal al-DIn al-Suyutl’s Al-Haba’ik fi akhbar al- 

mala’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels)

This thesis presents a commentary with selected translations of Jalal al-Dln c Abd al- 

Rahman al-Suyuti’s Al-Haba’ik fi akhbar al-mala’ik ( The Arrangement of the 

Traditions about Angels). 

The work is a collection of around 750 hadlth about angels, followed by a postscript (khatima ) that discusses theological questions 

regarding their status in Islam. 

The first section of this thesis looks at the state of the study of angels in Islam, which has tended to focus on specific issues or narratives.

 However, there has been little study of the angels in Islamic tradition outside studies of angels in the Qur’an and eschatological literature. 

This thesis hopes to present some of this more 

general material about angels. 

The following two sections of the thesis present an analysis of the whole work. 

The first of these two sections looks at the origin of Muslim beliefs about angels, focusing on angelic nomenclature and angelic iconography. 

The second attempts to understand the message of al-Suyuti’s collection and the work’s purpose, through a consideration of the roles of angels in everyday life and ritual