Dante and Islam /
"Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocr...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Dante's world.
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Table of Contents:
- Dante and Islam: history and analysis of a controversy / Vicente Cantarino
- Dante and Islamic culture / Maria Corti
- Translations of the Qur'an and other Islamic texts before Dante (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) / José Martínez Gázquez
- How an Italian friar read his Arabic Qur'an / Thomas E. Burman
- Philosophers, theologians, and the Islamic legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4 / Brenda Deen Schildgen
- Dante and the Falasifa: religion as imagination / Gregory B. Stone
- Falconry as a transmutative art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam / Daniela Boccassini
- Dante's Muhammad: parallels between Islam and Arianism / Maria Esposito Frank
- Muhammad in hell / Karla Mallette
- Mendicants and Muslims in Dante's Florence / John Tolan
- Dante and the three religions / Giorgio Battistoni
- The last Muslims in Italy / David Abulafia.