Note 104 — PART I THE LEGEND OF THE NOCTURNAL JOURNEY AND ASCENSION OF MAHOMET COMPARED WITH THE DIVINE COMEDY
Harold Sunderland translation
Similar allegorical and mystical adaptations of the Miraj recur in several of the lesser works of Ibn Arabi. In the Futuhat, III, 447-465, he devotes a whole chapter, No. 367, to this subject of the Miraj. It contains a brief mystical commentary on the legend of the Prophet; an adaptation of the legend to the Ascensions or spiritual raptures of the Sufis and saints; and a long Miraj, in which the author, following the same route as Mahomet, is supposed to have risen to the heavens and to have conversed at length on theological and mystical subjects with all the prophets.