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BOŽANSTVENA KOMEDIJA I ISLAM
DIVINE COMEDY AND ISLAM

Author(s): Fatima Kadić-Žutić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Islam studies, 13th to 14th Centuries, Theory of Literature, Italian literature
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Dante; the Divine Comedy; Mi'raj; Islam; Christianity; Middle Ages;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the influence of Islamic sources on the idea and structure of Dante's Divine Comedy, the greatest literary work of the Christian Middle Ages. This paper presents the scientific discoveries of a Spanish orientalist Miguel Asin Palacios who in 1919 presented thesis which, and in a very detailed and on facts based method, proved similarities not only in general draft, but also in numerous details between Divine Comedy and several versions of the narrations about the Prophet's Mi'raj and Mi'rajes of Sufis, especially Ibn 'Arabi.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 443-462
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bosnian