“...He will arise with a scar on his neck...”. The body in Islamic beliefs (autoethnographic notes)

Abstract

   The article considers the role of the body in Islamic beliefs through the prism of the author’s own perception. The central subject is the resurrection before the Day of Judgment and the subsequent Eternity, into which each person will also enter bodily. Hence the great attention to the body in Islamic rituals (rites of body purification, the role of burial) and in everyday life of Muslims (obligation to take care of the body). It is connected with the basic Muslim understanding of the human being as an inseparable unity of soul and body.