Miguel Asin Y Palacios
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Miguel Asín Palacios (1871-1944) was a Spanish scholar and a Roman Catholic priest. He is primarily known for his authorship of La Escatología musulmana en la Divina Comedia (Islam and the Divine Comedy), a thesis detailing the Arab Muslim origins of the ideas and motifs present in Dante's Divine Comedy. His book, El Islam Cristianizado (Islam Christianized), published in 1931, is a study of Sufism through the works of Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi of Murcia.