Kitab al-Miraj
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The Kitab al Miraj (Arabic: كتاب المعراج "Book of Ascension") is a Muslim book concerned with Muhammad's ascension into the Heavens (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.
It 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 (b. 376 - d. 465 A.H.).
In the second half of the thirteenth century, the book was translated into Latin (as Liber Scale Machometi) and Spanish, and soon thereafter (in 1264) into Old French.[1] Its Islamic depictions of Hell are believed by some scholars to have been a major influence on Dante's 14th Century masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, including Miguel Asin Palacios, and Enrico Cerulli .
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- Traces de soufisme en Europe occidentale
- Bibliographic reference to the Miraj from Khuda Bakhsh Library in Patna, India
- THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF MUHAMMAD (Peace Be Upon Him) TO HEAVEN
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ 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.
