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INDEX

Aaraf, El, derivation of, 83

Abbas, Ibn, 9, 87, 136

Abd Allah, son of Rawaha, 5

Abd Allah, voyage of, 212

Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, 133

Abd Allah ibn Sahloh, 245

Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan, Caliph, torture of, 104

Abd ar-Rabihi, 9, 24

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf, legend of, 229

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Zayd, 133

Abraham, Garden of, 134

Abu Aldunya, Ibn, 224;
_hadith_ by, 230

Abu Bakr, 41

Abu Dolaf al-Ijli, in purgatory, 117

Abu Hurayra, _hadith_ of, 229

Abu Jahl, 91

Abu Kabir al-Hudali, the poet, 59

Abu Lahab, 58

Abu Laith, 39

Abu-l-Ala al-Maarri, the blind poet, 55;
history, 55 n;
_Risala al-ghufran_, 55-67, 74, 135

Abu-l-Hasan al-Ashari, 109

Abu-l-Hasan, Ali, 55 n

Abu Said al-Khadari, 183

Abu Talib, 5

Abu Ubayda, 56

Abu Yazid al-Bistami, 45

Accorso, Francisco de, 64

Acheronte, the monster, 186

Ad, wind of, 97, 173

Adam’s Peak, 124

Adelard of Bath, 257 n

_Adim_, or surface, 88

Ahmed ibn Abu-l-Hawari, 132

Al-Akhtal, the poet, 59

Al-Asmai, 56

Al-Awzai, legend of, 224

Albaida, Mount, 106

Alberic, Vision of, xvi, 191

Albumazar, 261

Aleppo, 55 n

Alexander the Great, 180;
voyage of, 204, 215

Alfarabius, 160, 261

Alfraganius, 261

_Al-Futuhat al-makkiya_, or _the Revelations of Mecca_, 47-51

Al-Gassaq, or infection, 90

Algazel, the great moralist, 79, 261;
_Minhaj_, 44 n;
views on paradise, 137;
_Ihia_, 162, 164, 189, 209;
theory of the Beatific Vision, 162;
_hadith_ by, 228

Al-Hajjaj, torture of, 104

Al-Hasan, _hadith_ by, 228

_Al-Hatma_, or greedy fire, 88

_Al-Hawiya_, or abysm, 88

_Al-Hazan_, or sorrow, 90

Al-Horayfish, 45 n

Al-Hutaiya, the poet, 58

Ali, 87, 216, 260;
torture of, 103

Ali al-Talhi, 132

Al-Idrisi, 206

_Al-Jahim_, or intense fire, 88

Al Jahiz, _Book of Animals_ or _Hayawan_, 107 n, 208, 214 n

_Al-Khabal_, or ruin, 90

Al-Khansa, the poetess, 58

Alpetragius, 261

Alphonso VI, Conqueror of Toledo, 244;
marriage, 244

Alphonso X, or the Wise, 244;
Governor of Murcia, 245;
_Grand e General Estoria d’Espanna_, 245, 249;
_Primera Crónica General_, 249 n

Al-Qama, the poet, 59

Alvaro of Cordova, _Indiculus luminosus_, 242, 248

_Al-Wayl_, or misery, 90

_Al-Yawaqit_, 44 n

Amador de los Ríos, 246 n, 250 n

Amari, _Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia_, 240 n

_Analecta Bollandiana_, x

Angels and Devils, debate between, for possession of the Soul,
legends of the, 226-232

Anselmo, Fr., de Turmeda, vii

Antaeus, the giant, 105

Antara, the epic poet, 59

Aquinas, St. Thomas, vii, 65;
_see_ St. Thomas

Arabi, Ibn, vii, 44 n;
_Al-Futuhat al-Makkiya_, xiii, 47-51, 92, 157-160, 172, 276;
_The Book of the Nocturnal Journey_, 45;
compared with the Divine Comedy, 51-54, 154-160, 172, 264-271,
275-277;
ascension, 74;
description of Hell, 92;
on the souls detained in the _sirat_, 115;
the two heavens, 138;
conception of paradise, 139, 150-152;
on the grades of Heaven and Hell, 145;
division of heaven into mansions, 147;
simile of the tree of happiness, 152;
distribution of the elect, 155;
description of the Beatific Vision, 157-160, 164;
symbol of the three circles, 168-171;
“The Interpreter of Love,” 267, 268;
“The Treasures of Lovers,” 267-271;
the psychology of love, 275

Arabian Nights Tales, 89 n

Arezzo, Guittone da, 64

Aristotle, _Apocryphal Theology_, 168

Armengol, Fr. Pedro, “El Obispo de Jaén sobre la seta Mahometana,”
250 n

Armorican monks, legend of, 218

Ash-Sharani, _Mizan_, 124 n

Asín y Palacios, Prof. Miguel, _La Escatología musulmana en la
Divina Comedia_, vii;
_Abenmasarra_, xiii, 24 n, 44 n, 45 n, 51 n, 81 n, 93 n, 107 n, 168
n, 208 n, 273 n;
_La mystique d’Al-Gazzali_, 81 n;
_La Psicología_, 165 n;
_El Averroismo teológico de Santo Tomás de Aquino_, 262 n

_As-Sair_, or flaming fire, 88

_As-Saqar_, or place of burning, 89

Ash-Shanfara, the poet, 60

Ash-Sharani, denounces Ibn Arabi, 44 n

_Atham_, or place of crimes, 90

_Athara_, or place of damp, 89

Avempace, 160

Averrhoes, vii, 65;
views on paradise, 138;
theory of the Beatific Vision, 160, 163;
in limbo, 259, 262

Avicenna, 160;
_Risala at-tayr_, 45 n;
in limbo, 259, 262

Aws ibn Hajar, the poet, 59

Ayshun, Ibn, 149

_Az-Zaqum_, a tree in hell, 111 n

Babelon, _Du Commerce des Arabes dans le nord de l’Europe avant les
croisades_, 239 n

Bacon, Roger, 257, 264

Balfour, Earl of, xi

Ballesteros, _Sevilla_, 246 n, 251 n

Banu Odhra, the Yemen tribe of, or “Children of Chastity,” 272

_Basit_, or plain, 88

Basset, René, “Histoire du Roi Sabour,” 111 n

Batiffol, _Anciennes Littératures chrétiennes: La Littérature
grecque_, 76 n

_Batih_, or place of torrents, 89

Batiouchkof, _Le débat de l’âme et du corps_, 183, 227

Batutah, Ibn, 124

Baxxar ibn Burd, the poet, 59

Beatific Vision, 148, 157-167, 173;
grades in, 166

Beatrice leads Dante to heaven, 11, 28, 52;
meeting with him, 70, 129, 173;
rebukes him, 122, 131

Beck, Friedrich, ix;
_Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie_, 255 n

Belacqua, in the antechamber of purgatory, 117

Benjamin of Tudela, “Itinerary,” 239

Bertrand de Born, torture of, 103, 104

Bilal, 41, 203

Blochet, M., _Les sources orientales de la Divine Comédie_, xv n, 246
n;
_L’Ascension au ciel du prophète Mohammed_, 76 n

Boniface VIII, Pope, 252

Bonucci, Prof., ix

Boraq, the beast of heaven, 46, 48, 203

Brehier, _L’Église et l’orient au moyen âge_, 240 n

Briareus, the giant, 105

Brockelmann, 39 n, 45 n, 55 n

Bukhari, the critic, 200, 247

_Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique_, x

_Bulletino della società dantesca italiana_, ix

Buonagiunta, the poet, 64

Burdach, _Ueber den Ursprung des Mittelalterlichen Minnesangs_, 257 n

Buxtorf, _Lexicon chaldaicum_, 91 n

Caaba, temple, 144, 270

Caballera, Prof., x

Cabaton, _Revue de l’Histoire des Religions_, 255 n

Cæsar of Heidenbach, 225

Caiaphas, tortures of, 101, 173

Cairo, celebration of the _Miraj_, 76

Cancellieri, Abbé, xvi, 191

Cantara, or place of expiation, 116

Capocchio of Sienna, 17, 69

Caronte, the boatman, 15

Carra de Vaux, _Fragment d’eschatologie musulmane_, 93 n, 152 n

Casella, the musician, 64

Cavalcanti, Guido, 255 n, 271

Ceylon, island of, 124

Chantepie, _Hist. des Rel._, 86 n, 91 n, 195 n, 228 n

Charlemagne, Emperor, 195

Charles, R., _The Apocalypse of Baruch_, 76 n;
_The Assumption of Moses_, 76 n

Chauvin, Victor, _Bibliographic des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux
Arabes_, 39 n, 89 n, 111 n, 206, 213 n

Chinvat, or luminous bridge, 115

Christian legends, origin, 177-179;
of paradise, 199-204;
sea voyages, 204;
sleepers, 216-218

Christianity, contact with Islam, 239-246

Circle, symbol of the, 168-171

Clair-Tisdall, _The Sources of Islam_, 76 n

Cock, Moslem legend of, 18, 29, 72

Cocytus lake, 106, 108

Cold, torture of, 106

Comettant, Oscar, _Civilisations inconnues_, 107 n

Constantinople, celebration of the _Miraj_, 76;
Council of, 222

_Convito_, the, 267, 276

_Corra_, the, 102, 120, 148, 165, 199 n, 231

_Corrat, Aloyun_, 130

Cosmo, Umberto, on the learning of Dante, 256

_Cour du paradis_, 200, 202

“Court of Holiness,” _hadiths_ of the, 201, 202

Crete, island of, 99 n

Crusades, influence of, 240

Cunizza, 65 n, 72

Dahlan, 110

Damiri, 18 n

D’Ancona, xvi, 32, 180, 184, 190, 214;
_Precursori_, xvii, 85 n, 141 n;
on the learning of Dante, 256

Daniel, Arnauld, 64

Dante, Divine Comedy, vii, xiii, 47, 62;
Moslem influences, xiii-xviii, 36, 234, 238, 255;
compared with the Nocturnal Journey of Mahomet, 3-9;
with his Ascension, 11, 14-17, 25-32;
conception of Hell, 14-17, 85, 88-111;
threefold purification, 37, 70, 112, 114, 122;
_Epistola a Can Grande della Scala_, 46 n, 51;
_Monarchia_, 47 n, 51;
compared with _Al-Futuhat_, 51-54, 264-271, 275-277;
visit to hell or purgatory, 63-67;
summary of comparisons, 67-76;
compared with other Moslem legends on the after-life, 79;
the limbo, 82;
description of a hellish storm, 97;
tortures of sinners in Hell, 98-110, 117-121;
on the fall of Lucifer, 110;
conception of Purgatory, 111-116;
the earthly paradise, or Garden of Eden, 121-135;
the site, 122-125;
meeting with Beatrice, 129, 131, 173;
temperament, 129;
the Celestial Paradise, 135, 140-142, 145;
the _Paradiso_, 142, 199;
site of glory or celestial Jerusalem, 143;
simile of the rose, 145, 151;
distribution of the blessed, 146, 156;
compared with Ibn Arabi’s paradise, 154-160;
on the Beatific Vision, 163, 166;
geometrical symbol of the three circles, 167, 171;
analogies with Islamic literature, 171-174;
in Rome, 252;
attraction for Islamic culture, 256, 259, 264, 275;
knowledge of Semitic languages, 258;
_De vulgari eloquio_, 259, 261;
portrayal of Mahomet, 260;
sketch of Ali, 261;
sympathy with Moslem philosophers and men of science, 261-263;
_Vita Nuova_, 266;
the _Convito_, 267

Dardir, 40 n, 41 n

Daud, Ibn, legend of, 229;
_Book of Venus_, 273

De Goeje, _Légende St. Brandan_, 206-208, 214

_De Haeresibus_, 81 n

Devils and Angels, Debate between, for possession of the Soul,
legends of the, 226-232

D’Herbelot, _Bibliothèque Orientale_, 123 n

Dis, city of, 16, 69, 98

Divine Comedy, Moslem influences, vii, xiii, 36, 234, 238, 255;
character, 63;
personages, 63;
_see_ Dante

Diyarbakri, _Tarikh al-Khamis_, 124 n

Donati, Piccarda, 65, 72

Dozy, _Recherches_, 240 n

Ducange, _Glossarium_, 81 n

Dulcarnain, legend of, 205, 210, 215

Eagle, vision of the, 29, 72

Earth, division of the, 110

Earths, the seven, 88

Edda, The Song of the Sun in the, 192

Eden, Garden of, 121, 134;
site, 122-125

Ephesus, Seven Sleepers of, 220-222

Ephialtes, the giant, 90, 105, 106

_Escatología musulmana en la Divina Comedia, La_, vii

Esperaindeo, Abbot, _Apologetico contra Mahoma_, 248

Eunoe, river of, 37, 70, 114, 122

Euphrates, the, 11;
source of, 99 n

Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi, scheme of paradise, 149

Fatima, 57 n

Felicity, Tree of, 24, 152, 154

Felix, the Cistercian monk, legend of, 217

Ferdinand the Saint, 245

Fibonacci, Leonardo, 255 n

Fire, torment of, 121, 184 n

Florence, Council of, 112

Fraticelli, _Figura universale della D.C._, 14 n, 37 n, 47 n, 86 n,
143 n

Frederick, King of Sicily, 241

Frezzi, Federigo, _Quadriregio_, 154

Frisian sailors, legend of, 215

Gabriel, accompanies Mahomet to Heaven, 10, 12, 18-24, 28, 33-35, 68

Gabrieli, “Intorno alle fonti orientali della Divina Commedia,” 255 n

Gayangos Collection, 39 n, 40 n, 41 n, 43 n, 45 n, 87 n, 88 n, 96 n,
100 n

Gehenna or _Jahannam_, 88

Ghiti, 40 n, 41 n

Giacomino of Verona, the minstrel, 201

González, Fernández y, _Mudéjares_, 244 n

Graf, xvi, 32, 184, 214, 223;
_Demonologia di Dante_, 108, 227;
on the site of the earthly paradise, 122, 125;
the Christian legends, 178;
origin of the _Three Monks of the East_, 180

Griffolino of Arezzo, 17, 69

Gubernatis, _Dante e l’India_, 124 n

Guidi, _Sette Dormiente_, 221

Guinicelli, Guido, the poet, 64, 271

_Hadiths_, or traditions on the After-life, 247

Hakki, Ibrahim, _Maʿrifet Nameh_, 93

Hales, Alexander, 264

Hamduna, 57, 65, 73

Hamza, 57 n

Haritha, 5, 41

Hassen Husny Abdul-Wahab, 45 n

_Hayn_, or region of adversity, 89

Hazm, Ibn, 258;
theory of the Beatific Vision, 163;
“Necklace of the Dove,” 273;
“Characters and Conduct,” 273

Heat, torture of, 106

Heaven, grades of, 145, 149 n;
division into seven mansions, 147

Heavens, the seven, 10, 18, 88;
the nine astronomical, 48-50, 72, 142;
the two, 138

Hell, the four rivers, 99 n;
torments of, 173, 183, 187;
division, 194, 232;
gates, 194;
legends of visions of, 180-195;
respite of sinners from tortures, 222-226

Hell, the Moslem, 14, 85-111;
torments, 17, 96-110;
depth, 86, 92;
mouth, 86;
structure, 87;
seven gates, 87;
divisions, 88;
storm, 97;
giants, 105-110

Hells, the two, 114

Henry III, Emperor, 195

Hijr, Ibn, _Isaba_, 213 n

Hirschfeld, _Researches into ... the Qurân_, 76 n

“Historia Arabum,” 249, 254

Holy Land, pilgrimages to the, 239

_House of Habitation_, temple, 11, 12, 50, 144

Hugh of St. Victor, 113

Hyacinth, Mount of the, 124

Hypocrites, torture of, 101

Iblis, king of the infernal regions, 58, 89;
torture of, 92 n, 106, 109;
legend of, 111

Ida, Mount, 99 n

_Ikhwan Assafa_, or Brethren of Purity, vii, 123

Illuministic mystics, 264

_Imram Maelduin_, 208 n

Imru-l-Qays, the poet, 59, 60, 70, 135

Interián de Ayala, “El pintor Cristiano y erudito,” 197

Ischia, island of, 223

Ishac, 9

Ishaq ibn Hunayn, 253 n

_Ishraqi_ mystics, 264;
doctrine, 165;
symbol of the circle, 168

Islam, doctrine on the future life, 79, 86, 233;
the earthly paradise, or Garden of Eden, 121-135;
the Celestial Paradise, 135-171;
analogies with the Divine Comedy, 171-174;
influence on Christian legends, 179;
legends of, 185;
on sea voyages, 205;
sleepers, 218-222;
belief in the respite from torture, 223-226;
_hadiths_ on Angels and Demons, 228-232;
contact with Christianity, 239-246

Ismail ibn Hayyan, 134

_Isra_, or Nocturnal Journey of Mahomet, xiv, 3-9;
First Cycle, Version A, 4-6;
Version B, 6-9;
fusion with the _Miraj_, 33-38;
Version of Cycle III, 33

Italy, the _dolce stil nuovo_ poetry, origin, 271

Izzu’d-Din ibn Abd as-Salam, on the grades of heaven, 149 n

Jabir ibn Abd Allah, _hadith_ by, 228

Jafar, 5

_Jahannam_, or Gehenna, 88

Jahiz, _Hayawan_, 107

Jerusalem, celestial, site of, 143, 144;
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 214 n

Jihun, the, source of, 99 n;
monks of, legend, 217

Joachim, Abbot, vision of the, 193

Jourdain, _Recherches sur les anciennes traductions latines
d’Aristote_, 245 n, 248 n

Jubinal, “Le vergier du paradis,” 200

Jurayj, Ibn, 194

Kaab al-Akhbar, 143, 189

_Kanz_, 86 n, 87 n, 91 n

Karizme, Prince of, voyage, 205, 206

Kasimirski, 84 n, 86 n, 97 n

Kauthar, the river of paradise, 24, 203

Khadija, 57 n

_Khandaq as-Sokran_, or pit, 90

_Kharida_, 97 n

Khaytaur, 58, 66, 68

Khazin, _Tafsir_, 87 n, 97 n, 98 n

Khidr, legends on, 213

Koran, the, 11, 24, 83, 230;
paradise of, 136, 141;
translations of the, 245, 248;
houris, 274

Labitte, xvi, 32, 180;
opinion of the Voyage of St. Brandan, 214

La Fuente, _Hist. de las Universidades_, 246 n

_Lamlam_, or round valley, 90, 102

Landino, Christoforo, 37 n;
on Dante’s conception of Hell, 85;
on purgatory, 113

Lane, _An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern
Egyptians_, 76 n

La Pia of Sienna, 65

Latini, Brunetto, tutor to Dante, 64, 252;
tortures in Hell, 98;
“Tesoretto,” 252;
“Tesoro,” 252, 254;
Ambassador to Toledo, 254

_Lazi_, or glowing fire, 88

Leire, monastery of, 248

Lentino, Jacopo da, 64

Lethe, river of, 37, 70, 114, 122

Limbo, the, 81;
the Moslem, 83

Limbus, the, 81, 83

Lotus-tree of the Boundary, 11, 12, 24, 35

Lucifer, 89;
position in Hell, 108;
appearance, 109;
fall, 110;
tortures, 173, 188

Lull, Raymond, vii, 139, 255 n, 257, 264;
_Liber de Gentili_, 140 n

Maarrat Alnoman, 55 n

Magnus, Albertus, 257

Mahomet, _Isra_, or Nocturnal Journey, xiv, 3-9, 32-38;
_Miraj_, or Ascension, xiv, 9-38, 199, 247, 251;
theological commentaries on the legend, 38-42;
Adaptations from the Legend, mainly mystical Allegories, 42-54;
literary imitations, 54-67;
summary of comparisons, 67-76;
intercedes for sinners, legend of, 185, 198;
_hadith_ by, 230;
in Hell, 259;
misrepresentations of, 260

Makhluf, Ibn, 44 n, 85 n, 98 n, 99 n, 149 n

Mâle, “L’art religieux du XIIIme siècle en France,” 196

Malebolge, valley of, 99

Malikan, the beast, 110

Manfred of Sicily, in the antechamber of purgatory, 117

Margrave, Hugh, 187

Martin, François, _Le Livre d’Henoch_, 76 n

Martin, Raymond, 139;
_Explanatio Simboli_, 140 n, 250 n

Masarra, Ibn, xiii, 264, 276

_Masika_, or store, 89

Matilda, 37, 70, 122

_Maubiq_, or perdition, 90

Maymun al-Asha, 56

Maysara, 9, 24

Mecca, Mosque of, 10

Minos, the Keeper of Hell, 8, 13, 16, 18

_Miraj_, or Ascension of Mahomet, xiv, 9-24;
Second Cycle, 9;
Version A, 10-12;
Version B, 12-18;
Version C, 18-32;
fusion with the _Isra_, 33-38;
Version of Cycle III, 33

Modi, _Dante papers_, 76 n

Mondir ibn Said al-Belloti, 123

_Monks of the East, Three_, 180-182

Montecasino, Monastery of, 191

Moreno, Gomez, _Iglesias mozárabes_, 243 n

Morocco, celebration of the _Miraj_, 76

Mosca degli Uberti, torture of, 103, 104

Moslem legend of Mahomet’s Nocturnal Journey, 3;
on the after-life, compared with the Divine Comedy, 79;
purgatory, 80, 111-121;
limbo, 81, 83;
hell, 85;
conception of paradise, 200;
legends of sea voyages, 205;
influences on the Divine Comedy, 234, 238, 256, 275-277;
legends on the after-life, transmission to Christian Europe and
Dante, 246-255;
aversion to writing, 247 n

Mozarabs, the, 242

Muawya, Caliph, _hadith_ of, 229

Mudejars, the, 244

Muhalhil, the poet, 60

Muhammad ar-Riquti, 245

Muljam, Ibn, 261

Murcia, recapture of, 245

Muslim, the critic, 200, 247, 250

_Muspilli_, 227, 231 n

Muta, battle of, 5

Nallino, Prof., ix;
_Rivista degli Studi Orientali_, 255 n

Nardi, Bruno, xiii n;
_Sigieri di Brabante_, 262 n, 267 n

_Neuphilologische Mitteilungen_, x

Nicholas IV, Pope, 250, 252

Nicholson, 55 n;
translation of “The Interpreter of Love,” 267 n

Nile, the, 11;
source of, 99 n

Nimrod, in Hell, 105

Normans, the, administration of Sicily, 240

_Nuova Antologia_, ix

Oderisi, the painter, 64

Omar, 9

Ozanam, xvi, xvii n, 32, 180, 192;
on the learning of Dante, 256

Palermo, 241

Paradise, entry of the blessed soul into, 130;
legends of, 199-204;
the Celestial, 135-171;
site of, 143;
spheres, 150;
grades, 151;
distribution of the elect, 155;
Earthly, 121-135;
site, 122-125;
description, 126-128;
legends of, 130-134

_Paradiso_, the, 11, 24, 41;
compared with the legend of the Ascension of Mahomet, 25-32;
scheme of the, 142;
the nine astronomical heavens, 142

Parodi, Prof., ix

Perrone, _Praelectiones theol._, 82 n, 143 n

Petavius, _Dogm. Theolog._, 81 n;
on the _lumen gloriae_, 161

Pistelli, E., _L’ultimo canto della D.C._, 168 n

Plotinus, 162

Porena, Manfredi, 14 n;
“Commento grafico alla Divina Commedia per use delle scuole,” 93,
152

Pozzuoli, 223

Priscian, the grammarian, 64

Purgatory, the Christian, 80;
the Moslem, 80, 111-121;
site of, 112;
punishments, 117-121

Qaim al-Jawziya, _Miftah_, 123 n

Qarih, Ibn al-, travels in the celestial regions, 55-58, 60;
in hell, 58-61

Qasi, Ibn, 93 n

_Qisas_, 81 n, 88 n, 97 n, 105 n, 111 n, 213 n

Qotaiba, Ibn, _Liber poësis et poëtarum_, 273 n

Qummi, _Tafsir_, 45 n

Rada, Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de, “Historia Arabum,” 249, 254

Rafraf, or shining wreath, 48

Rajna, Pio, viii

_Rasail_, or encyclopædia, 123

Rawaha, 5

Raymond, Archbishop, translation of Arabic books, 244, 248

Reclus, _Géogr. Univ._, 124 n

Regio Emilia, vision of the Bard of, 193

Renan, opinion of the voyage of St. Brandan, 214

_Revue de littérature comparée_, xi

Ribera, Julián, vii;
_Orígenes del Justicia de Aragón_, 237 n, 244 n;
_Discursos de ingreso en las Academias Española y de la Historia_,
257 n

Ricardo de Media Villa, 113

Ricoldo de Monte Croce, the Dominican, 255 n

Ridwan, the angel, 130

_Risala al-ghufran_, or Treatise on Pardon, 55-67, 74, 135

_Rivista degli studi orientali_, ix

_Rivista di Studi filosofici e religiosi_, ix

Robert of Reading, Archdeacon of Pamplona, Latin version of the
Koran, 248

Roger II, King, at Palermo, 241

Rossi, 8 n, 14 n, 25 n, 44 n, 47 n, 53 n, 63 n, 65 n, 66 n, 86 n, 88
n;
on Dante’s conception of Hell, 85

Rudolph, King, of Burgundy, 193

Sad Valley, 102

Said of Toledo, 258

St. Ambrose, 161

St. Augustine, 161

St. Brandan, voyage of, 206-214, 233

St. Epiphanes, 161

St. Eulogius, _Memoriale Sanctum_, 248

St. Isidore, conception of Hell, 91 n

St. John Chrysostom, 161

St. Macarius, legend of, 180-182

St. Michael, 196, 197

St. Patrick, Legend of Purgatory of, 190

St. Paul, Vision of, 182-185, 223

St. Paul, the hermit, 213

St. Peter Damian, legend by, 223

St. Peter Paschal, Bishop of Jaen, “Impunaçion de la seta de
Mahomah,” 250;
history of, 250;
in Rome, 252

St. Thomas Aquinas, vii, 65, 113;
_Summa Theologica_, 81 n, 91 n, 143 n;
on the Beatific Vision, 160, 163

Saladin, 262

Salman, _hadith_ by, 228

Salomo, Emmanuel Ben, 255 n

San Amaro, legend of, 218

_Saqar_, or burning fire, 88

Scartazzini, 37 n

Schiaparelli, _Ibn Giobeir_, 240 n

Schroeder, _Sanct Brandan_, 207

Scotus, Duns, 264

Sea Voyages, legends of, 204-216

Seville, recapture of, 245;
Latin and Arabic College founded at, 245

Shahr ibn Hawshab, legend of, 230

Shakir ibn Muslim, 149;
legend of the earthly paradise, 126-128

Shiites, the, 260

Sicily, conquered by the Normans, 240;
population, 241

Sigier of Brabant, 65, 262

Sihun, the, source of, 99 n

_Sijin_, or dungeon, 89, 90

Simonet, _Hist. mozárabes_, 243 n

Sindbad the Sailor, voyage of, 205, 206, 207

Singer, S., _Arabische und Europäische Poesie im Mittelalter_, 257 n

_Sirat_, the, or path of purgatory, 125, 126, 183;
souls detained in, 115, 120

Sleepers, legends of, 216-222

Söderhjelm, Prof., x

Sodomites, the, torture of, 98, 173

Sordello, the poet, 64

Soul, debate between Angels and Devils for possession of the, legends
of, 226-232

Souls, weighing of, legends on the, 195-199

Spain, contact with Islam, 242;
the centre of Western culture, 243;
study of Moslem legends on the after-life, 247

Statius, Papinius, 64

Stygian Lake, 16

Sufis, or mystics, doctrine, 44-46, 273

Sulayman, 9

Sulayman ad-Darani, 132

Sundby, _Della vita e delle opere di Brunetto Latini_, 252 n, 253 n

Sunderland, Harold L., xi

Suyuti, _Al-Laali_, 266 n;
_Sudur_, 104 n, 117 n, 226

Tabari, _Tafsir_, 33, 35, 41 n, 87 n, 91 n, 100

Tabatasharran, the poet, 60

Tabrani, _hadith_ by, 266

_Tadhkira_, the, or Memorial of the Future Life, 44 n, 90 n, 105 n,
121 n, 149, 184, 186, 189

_Tafsir_, or commentary on the Koran, 33

Tarafa, the poet, 59

Tawfiq, 58, 65, 73

Thaalabi, _Qisas_, 88 n

_Thaqil_, or region of distress, 89

Thomist doctrine, 165, 263

Tisserant, Eugène, _Ascension d’Isaie_, 76 n

Tixeront, _Hist. des dogmes_, 83 n

Toledo, 244

Torraca, xv n, xvi n

Torture, respite from, legends of the, 222-226

Toynbee, Paget, 261

Trent, Council of, 112

Trismegistus, Hermes, 168

Tufayl, Ibn, _Self-taught Philosopher, or Epistle of Hayy ibn
Yaqzan_, 51 n

Tundal, legend of, 186

Turcill, vision of, 193

Ulysses and the syrens, fable of, 37 n

Utba, 58

Utba al-Ghulam, 132

Van Tieghem, Prof., x;
_Revue de littérature comparée_, 255 n

Virâf, Ardâ, 76 n, 246 n

Virey, _Relig. anc. Égypte_, 195 n

Virgil, 64, 66;
guides Dante through Hell, 68, 82

_Visione dei gaudii de’ santi_, 201

Vossler, 36, 66 n, 172 n, 193, 272;
on the prehistory of the Divine Comedy, 85

Wahab, 9

Wahab, Ibn, 131

Wahb ibn Al-Ward, _hadith_ by, 228

Wahb ibn Munabbih, 88 n, 144

Wicksteed, Rev. P. H., _The Temple Classics_, 27 n

Wüstenfeld, _Die Übersetzungen arabischer Werke_, 248 n

Yaqut’s Dictionary, 55 n

Yazid, Caliph, 59

Zahir ibn Rustam, 269

_Zal Yahmum_, mountain, 90

_Zamharir_, or frozen lake, 107, 173

Zayd, 5, 41

_Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie_, ix

Zemzem, well of, 10

Zodiac, the, 50

Zoroastrian religion, 107, 227