“One of the saddest things to think about is the appearance of Muhammad in Dante’s Infer
“One of the saddest things to think about is the appearance of Muhammad in Dante’s Inferno. He is in Dante’s Inferno, and he appears in an absolutely shocking form to Dante: his body is split. His body is split and the entrails and bowels are hanging out. And he’s accompanied by ‘Ali, his [cousin]. That is to say, that first of all Dante is projecting Islam as a schism, as a schism from Christianity - as a sectarian schism from Christianity. And he’s also perceiving that it’s part of the destiny of Islam to be itself split between Sunni and Shi'ite, etc.” ~ Norman O. Brown, The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition -- source link
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