Atlas of Celestial Intelligences Source-Based Celestial Archive

Quranic and later Islamic reception

Islamic Traditions

Islamic sources include named Quranic angels, title-based angelic roles, revelation language, eschatological motifs, and later angelological names in hadith and interpretive tradition.

Cosmology

Revelation, divine command, angels as servants, eschatological trumpet imagery, recording beings, and the angel of death title.

Intermediary Beings

  • Jibril
  • Mikail
  • Israfil in later tradition
  • Azrael in later tradition
  • Malak al-Mawt as title

Celestial Hierarchy

The Quran does not present a single systematic hierarchy comparable to later Christian ninefold orders.

Reflective Inquiry

What does this civilization's cosmology reveal about order, boundary, mediation, and the human attempt to describe the heavens?

Source References

  1. Quran 2:97-98
  2. Quran 32:11
  3. Quran 66:4
  4. later Islamic angelological tradition