Did Dante rip off from a muslim book

when writing the Divine Comedy

read this dailysabah.com/feature/2014/02/27/divine-art-or-plagiarism

its the brown version of KANGZ

Hehe Muslims are simply inferior to the white man

That talking about the Liber Scalae Machometi? Yeah, we're taught about that in highschool while reading the comedy. To be fair, saying it's a rip-off completely misinterprets the intertextuality typical of religious/mystical texts: everything is a flux of sacred ideas and images borrowed from any source (namely, Greek and Roman writing were read as prefigurative of Christianity, which lend them an aura of holiness making them suitable for reutilization) and rearranged as the author (or maybe God, if you think about them as divine conduits) pleases. I think it's a wonderful methodology, as an aesthetic and a literary "ontology".

Now, the last line of the article (hurr durr you take from Islam then insult it, even though they put in a more jadedly ironic way) is the kind of bullshit you say retrospectively when you don't like an old book, so it should be disregarded.

Wasn't the idea among the people in Europe at that time that Muhammad was merely a schismatic Christian? To call it islamophobic seems unfair if it wasn't completely understood what Islam was.

WE WUZ

Haven't got a clear idea of the religious panorama of Dante's time, but that seems a bit far-fetched. Interesting, though. Any source? I'd like to know more.

Did you know that all of European culture is stolen? This is why POC seem so worthless when you look at history

is this true....that european culture was stolen from POC?

Boy I do like when actual discussion is killed off by dank memes, isn't it the most Veeky Forums thing ever?