Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and indexes.
Contents:
Approaches to a controversy. Dante and Islam : history and analysis of a controversy / Vicente Cantarino ; Dante and Islamic culture / Maria Corti -- Dante and knowledge of the Qur'an. Translation of the Qur'an and other Islamic texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries) / José Martínez Gázquez ; How and Italian friar read his Arabic Qur'an / Thomas E. Burman -- Images of Islamic philosophy and learning in Dante. Philosophers, theologian, 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 -- Images of Muḥammad in Dante. Dante's Muḥammad : parallels between Islam and Arianism / Maria Esposito Frank ; Muḥammad in hell / Karla Mallette -- Islam in Dante's Italy. Mendicants and Muslims in Dante's Florence /John Tolan ; Dante and the three religions / Giorgio Battistoni ; The last Muslims in Italy / David Abulafia.
Series:
Dante's world : historicizing literary cultures of the Due and Trecento
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