Dante and Islam

Başlık:

Dante and Islam

ISBN:

9780823263905

9780823263899

9780823266302

9780823263868

9780823263875

Edition:

First edition.

Yayın Bilgileri:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

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.

Abstract:

"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

Local Note:

JSTOR

Personal Subject:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia-History and criticism.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632-In literature.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Title Subject:

Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)

Subject Term:

Islam in literature.

Islamic philosophy -- In literature.

Islam and literature -- History.