Islam and the Divine comedy

1. Common character of the two main versions of this cycle 4 2. Summary of Version A of Cycle I 4 3. Its comparison with the Divine Comedy. Agreement in general outline 5 4. Sim...

1. Need of further examination of the poem in its five parts—limbo, hell, purgatory, earthly and celestial paradises 79 2. Preliminary enquiry into the doctrine of Islam on the...

1. Slight influence of these legends upon the genesis of Dante’s poem 177 2. Are these legends the spontaneous outcome of popular imagination, or did they originate in other lit...

1. Literary imitation dependent on three conditions, viz. resemblance between model and copy; priority of the former; and communication between the two 237 2. The similarity in...

1. The Moslem legend of Mahomet’s nocturnal journey and ascent to the spheres of after-life originated and developed like most religious legends. Born of a brief passage in Reve...

1. The close resemblance that the Divine Comedy has been shown to bear to the legend of the _Miraj_ gives rise to a multiplicity of problems in the history of literature, all re...

1. The belief in the immortality of the soul and the natural desire of man to lift the veil shrouding the mysteries of the after-life appear to have been the psychological motiv...

2. Christian doctrine furnishes but scant authority for these features, especially the more striking ones enumerated under iv, v and vi. These are precisely the elements that we...

1. Whenever it is required to prove—in so far as historical matters admit of proof—a case of literary imitation, an answer must first be found to three pertinent questions.[586]...

Mahometi in regem et de jussionibus mendaciter excogitatis,” the author relates the raising of Mahomet to the dignity of king, after the taking of Damascus; and he adds that Mah...

“Et ideo accipiendus est alius modus, quem etiam quidam philosophi posuerunt, scilicet Alexander et Averroes (3. _de Anim. comm. 5 et 36_)” ... “Quidquid autem sit de aliis subs...