Kitab al-Miraj
The Kitab al Miraj (Arabic: كتاب المعراج "Book of the Ascension") is a Muslim book concerned with Muhammad's ascension into Heaven (known as the Miraj), following his miraculous one-night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem (the Isra). The book is divided into 7 chapters, and was written in Arabic using the Naskh script.
Kitab al-Miraj is believed to have been written by Abu'l-Qasim 'Abdalkarîm bin Hawâzin bin 'Abdalmalik bin Talhah bin Muhammad al-Qushairî al-Nisaburi أبو القاسم عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة بن محمد القشيري (born 376 A.H./ 986 CE - died 465 A.H./ 1072 CE).
In the second half of the 13th century, the book was translated into Latin (as Liber Scale Machometi) and Spanish (by Abraham of Toledo), and soon thereafter (in 1264 CE) into Old French.[1] Its Islamic depictions of Hell are believed by some scholars to have been a major influence on Dante's (born 1265 CE - died 1321 CE) 14th century masterpiece, the Divine Comedy (completed in 1320), including Miguel Asín Palacios, and Enrico Cerulli .
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- ^ I. Heullant-Donat and M.-A. Polo de Beaulieu, "Histoire d'une traduction," in Le Livre de l'échelle de Mahomet, translated by Gisèle Besson and Michèle Brossard-Dandré, Collection Lettres Gothiques, Le Livre de Poche, 1991, p. 22.
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- Sunni literature
- Medieval Arabic literature
- Entering heaven alive