Miguel Asín Palacios, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Miguel Asín Palacios

Spanish historian

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1871

Place of Birth: Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1944

Profession: writer, politician, historian, Catholic priest, literary historian

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Miguel Asín Palacios

  • Miguel Asín Palacios (1871–1944) was a Spanish scholar of Islamic studies and the Arabic language, and a Roman Catholic priest.
  • He is primarily known for suggesting Muslim sources for ideas and motifs present in Dante's Divine Comedy, which he discusses in his book La Escatología musulmana en la Divina Comedia (1919).
  • He wrote on medieval Islam, extensively on al-Ghazali (Latin: Algazel).
  • A major book El Islam cristianizado (1931) presents a study of Sufism through the works of Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi (Sp: Mohidín Abenarabe) of Murcia in Andalusia (medieval Al-Andalus).
  • Asín also published other comparative articles regarding certain Islamic influences on Christianity and on mysticism in Spain.

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