Note 138 — PART I THE LEGEND OF THE NOCTURNAL JOURNEY AND ASCENSION OF MAHOMET COMPARED WITH THE DIVINE COMEDY (continued 2)
Harold Sunderland translation
Cf. François Martin, Le Livre d’Henoch; Eugène Tisserant, Ascension d’Isaie; R. Charles, The Assumption of Moses; R. Charles, The Apocalypse of Baruch. For the Judæo-Christian origin of these legends Cf. Batiffol, Anciennes Littératures chrétiennes; La Littérature grecque, p. 56. Hirschfeld, in his Researches into ... the Qurân, p. 67, note 64, quotes a rabbinical legend of a journey through hell and paradise and points out certain analogies to a hadith of Bukhari. For the influence of the Persian ascension of Ardâ Virâf, see Blochet, L’Ascension au ciel du prophète Mohammed, and prior to Blochet, Clair-Tisdall in The sources of Islam, 76-81. Cf. Modi, Dante papers; Virâf, Adaaman and Dante, a work I have not been able to consult.