Risalat ul Ghufran, a Divine Comedy

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Risalat ul Ghufran, a Divine Comedy

work by al-Maʿarrī

Also known as: “Risālat al-ghufrān”

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Brackenbury, Risalat ul Ghufran, a Divine Comedy, 1943), in which the poet visits paradise and meets his predecessors, heathen poets who have found forgiveness. These later works aroused some Muslim suspicions. Al-Fuṣūl wa al-ghāyāt (“Paragraphs and Periods”), a collection of homilies in rhymed prose, has even…
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place in Arabic literature

In Arabic literature: Wine poetry
…Epistle of Forgiveness”; English translation: Risalat ul Ghufran: A Divine Comedy), in which a sheikh travels to paradise to ascertain the treatment of prominent pre-Islamic figures in the light of Islamic codes of behaviour, and al-Aʿshā and other pre-Islamic poets are made to justify their graphic depictions of pre-Islamic revelry…
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