Mourning and Monotheism: A Comparative Review of Jewish and Islamic Funerary Practice

This piece investigates how Jewish practices of grief and remembrance connect personal loss to broader questions of faith and divine unity.

Citation:

Astren, Fred. “Depaganizing Death: Aspects of Mourning in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Islam.” In Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality, edited by John C. Reeves, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.