Dante and Islam (Historicizing Dante)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823263878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Too specific of a topic and too narrow of an audience. Borrow before you buy to see if it's for you. Stuart Dunn Dante and Islam is one of the toughest books on Dante I have read. That is saying a lot, as I have been reading a lot on Dante this past month. For the past century, it has been a hot topic in Dante scholarship that Muslim eschatology influenced The Divi
It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.. 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
"How much did Dante really know about Islam? This collection of essays, framed by Ziolkowski's superb, judicious introduction, offers a substantive, multi-pronged overview of a vexed question among Dante scholars: the scope of his literary engagement with the faith of medieval Muslims and their intellectual traditions. A must-read volume for scholars and students of European views of the Muslim world."--Suzanne Conklin Akbari, author of Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450. Meticulous in their treatment, incisive and authoritative, these learned articles shed light not only on Dante studies but on the broader impact of Arabo-Islamic civilization on Western cultural history."--Luis M. Dante's visionary poetry is placed in the context of western reception of Arabic literature as well as the dynamic field of Mediterranean Studies. Girón-Negrón, Harvar
Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.