Why? Is your faith so weak, so brittle? Muhammad, lest we forget, survived Dante's Inferno. Trust me, he'll survive a 14-minute clip on YouTube. Perhaps the greatest irony, and tragedy ...

In the first section of his Divine Comedy, titled Inferno, Dante describes a fictional encounter with Muhammad, who is consigned to eighth circle of hell, reserved for those guilty of fraud.

I had a Pakistani friend who said to me at the time, you can buy "Dante's Inferno" in Karachi, which has Muhammad in the eighth circle of hell with his entrails hanging, and they banned satanic ...

site of a fresco by Giovanni da Modena showing Muhammad being tortured in Hell (this scene,from Dante's Inferno, was also depicted by Gustav Dore, William Blake,Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali).

Getty In "Inferno 4" Dante and Virgil enter Limbo ... The first sinner Dante sees in the ninth pocket is Muhammad, whom Dante, following medieval traditions, erroneously took to be a Christian ...

Translators have also preferred Inferno: its tableaux of carnage are so thrillingly obscene. In a famous passage, Dante meets Muhammad in the “bedlam” of the Eighth Circle, where the sowers of ...

There is no third.” Here’s what you need to know about Dante’s Inferno. Few Western writers have neared the influence and long legacy of Dante, the Italian poet, political philosopher ...

One of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno marks the first of his 3-part Divine Comedy poetic trilogy. Inferno tells the harrowing story of Dante’s journey ...