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We have Homer's : the Iliad and the Odyssey and Beowulf... will the Persians Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi, also Firdawsi: "Book of Kings"...
We have Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy and the Persian have:
Dante like Arab writers...
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before[19] as Liber Scale Machometi, "The Book of Muhammad's Ladder") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.
Here is a good read...
https://anba.com.br/en/the-arab-influence-in-the-divine-comedy/
snip...
The Brazilian researcher, who currently lives in Portugal, will launch the first translation into Portuguese of The Book of Muhammad’s Ladder. The book gathers texts in Arabic and is key to identify the similarities between its excerpts and the ones that would have been reproduced in the classic The Divine Comedy. The translation into Portuguese will be launched in February 2019 in Portugal and in Brazil. “The Divine Comedy was inspired by a great work. Nowadays, amid all this anti-Islamic bias, it is a recovery of these fruitful ties. Two literary canons, which shine a light on a historical period where coexistence was alive, with the Jewish people also,” says Mendes.
Shahnameh - Wikipedia
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We have Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy and the Persian have:
Book of Arda Viraf - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Dante like Arab writers...
Kitab al-Miraj - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before[19] as Liber Scale Machometi, "The Book of Muhammad's Ladder") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.
Here is a good read...
https://anba.com.br/en/the-arab-influence-in-the-divine-comedy/
snip...
The Brazilian researcher, who currently lives in Portugal, will launch the first translation into Portuguese of The Book of Muhammad’s Ladder. The book gathers texts in Arabic and is key to identify the similarities between its excerpts and the ones that would have been reproduced in the classic The Divine Comedy. The translation into Portuguese will be launched in February 2019 in Portugal and in Brazil. “The Divine Comedy was inspired by a great work. Nowadays, amid all this anti-Islamic bias, it is a recovery of these fruitful ties. Two literary canons, which shine a light on a historical period where coexistence was alive, with the Jewish people also,” says Mendes.