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Jahannam

Islamic concept of hell and punishment of sinners after death

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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In Islam, Jahannam is the place of punishment for evildoers in the Akhirah / afterlife, or hell. This notion is an integral part of Islamic theology and has occupied an important place in Muslim belief. The concept is often called by the proper name "Jahannam", but other names refer to hell and these are also often used as the names of different levels of hell. The term "Jahannam" itself is used not only for hell in general but for the uppermost layer of hell.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jahannam” is islamic concept of hell and punishment of sinners after death. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jahannam, Islamic and concept, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jahannam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.