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"Islam and the Divine comedy" by Miguel Asín Palacios is a scholarly study written in the early 20th century. It argues that Dante’s Divine Comedy drew extensively on Islamic eschatological narratives and mystic theology—especially the Prophet’s Night Journey and Ascension (Isra and Mi‘raj) and the writings of Ibn Arabi—shaping the poem’s structure, imagery, and themes.
The opening of the work presents an introduction praising the study’s impact and recounting the fierce international debate it provoked, followed by a preface where the author states his thesis and research path: from noticing parallels between Dante and Ibn Arabi to tracing deeper, earlier models in the Islamic Mi‘raj legend. It explains the translation’s abridgment and then lays out an expansive table of contents mapping the argument across hell, purgatory, paradise, and channels of transmission. The text then begins its analysis of the legend’s origins, summarizing early “Isra” versions (simple night journeys with p
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