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Title Dante and Islam / edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (372 pages)
Series Dante's world : historicizing literary cultures of the Due and Trecento
Dante's world.
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
Summary "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 apocryphal traditions about a "night journey" taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur'an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante's day and explores the bases for Dante's images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia -- History and criticism
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- In literature
SUBJECT Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- In literature
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia -- History and criticism
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 fast
Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast
Subject Islam in literature.
Islamic philosophy -- In literature
Islam and literature -- History
Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- History
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- History
POETRY -- Continental European.
Christianity
Civilization -- Islamic influences
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam and literature
Islam in literature
Literature
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001424
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956- editor.
ISBN 9780823263905
0823263908
9780823263899
0823263894
9780823266302
0823266303