About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Spanish academics, Luis Cernuda, Miguel Asin Palacios, Juan Comas, Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, 1st Count of Gondomar, Maria Goyri de Menendez Pidal, Juan Luis Vives, Valentin Fuster, Miquel Porta, Agusti Chalaux i de Subira, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Jose Maria Valderas Martinez, Viriato Diaz Perez, Josep Joan Moreso, Maria Rosa Calvo-Manzano, Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, Enrique Maximo Garcia, Jose Maria Barreda, Julian Ribera, Juan Pablo Fusi, Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria, Ceferino Gimenez Malla, Etelvina Andreu, Jose Moreno Villa, Llorenc Vidal Vidal, Pedro Salinas, Juan Marichal, Antonio de Nebrija, Josep Penuelas i Reixach, Eulogio Diaz del Corral, Jose Daporta Gozalez, Juan Latino, Josep Fontana, Benito Arias Montano, Andres Ortiz-Oses, Jose Moreno Carbonero, Juan Pablo Bonet, Delfin Carbonell Basset, Jose Ramon Montero, Beatriz Colomina, Tania Pleitez, Bernardo Ferrandiz Badenes, Francisco Franco del Amo, Luis Maria Bandres, Josefa Martin Luengo, Jose Ramos Munoz, Maria Rubies i Garrofe, Jose Denis Belgrano, Rafael Lopez Guzman, Anthony of the Mother of God, Juan de Quintana, Fernando Lazaro Carreter, Pedro Verdugo, 2nd Count of Torrepalma. Excerpt: Miguel Asin Palacios (1871-1944) was a Spanish scholar (an Arabist), and a Roman Catholic priest. He is primarily known for suggesting Islamic sources for ideas and motifs present in Dante's Divine Comedy, which he discusses in his book La Escatologia musulmana en la Divina Comedia (1919). He wrote extensively on Al-Ghazali . A major book El Islam cristianizado (1931) presents a study of Sufism through the works of Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi of Murcia in Andalusia. Also Asin wrote several articles concerning certain Islamic influences on Christianity and on mysticism in Spain. Miguel Asin Palacios was born in Zaragoza, Aragon, on July 5, 1871, into the modest commercial famil...
