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🦋 Dante and Mohammed

I found a paper by Otfried Lieberknecht describing Dante's encounter with Mohammed in the eighth circle of Hell, with reference to the idea that Dante borrowed the idea for his Commedia from the Islamic tradition of Kitab al-Miraj. It is called "A Medieval Christian View of Islam: Dante's Encounter with Mohammed in Inferno XXVIII". Seems like it will be a very useful resource in approaching Pamuk's The New Life.

Also: Jews and Muslims in Dante's Vision, by Jesper Hede, Aarhus University, Denmark.

posted morning of Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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