The Kitab al Miraj is a Muslim

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 book concerned with Muhammad

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's ascension into Heaven

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 (known as the Miraj

Isra and Mi'raj

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), following his miraculous one-night journey from Mecca

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 to Jerusalem (the Isra). The book is divided into 7 chapters, and was written in Arabic

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 using the Naskh script

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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 (b. 376 - d. 465 A.H.

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In the second half of the thirteenth century, the book was translated into Latin

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 (as Liber Scale Machometi) and Spanish

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, and soon thereafter (in 1264) into Old French

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. Its Islamic depictions of Hell

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 are believed by some scholars to have been a major influence on Dante

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's 14th century masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, including Miguel Asin Palacios, and Enrico Cerulli

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