Why Did Dante Aligerhi Condemn Prophet Mohammed a.s. to Hell?

Abstract

Ove 2021. godine obilježava se 700 godina od smrti Dantea Alighierija, italijanskog pjesnika, književnika i mislioca kojeg mnogi časte velikim pridjevima i znakovima priznanja. Povodom te godišnjice ovaj esej bavi se, ukratko, nekim razlozima zašto je Dante u svome djelu Božanstvena komedija, Božijem poslaniku Muhammedu doznačio mjesto u paklu. Esej se bavi pitanjima izvora i literature, prije svega srednjovjekovne, koja je izvršila utjecaj na Dantea u formiranju njegove opće predodžbe o islamu i Muhammedu, a. s. Esejom se stavlja do znanja da ni sa Danteom nije prestalo evropljansko srednjovjekovno, uglavnom negativno, a vrlo često i mrzilačko i ponižavajuće, tretiranje islama i Muhammeda, a. s. Esej ukazuje na potrebu razlikovanja Dantea i kršćanstva, jer Dante predstavlja samo sebe, svoje pjevanje i svoje mišljenje.This year, 2021, marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, writer and thinker, who has been honored by grand attributes and signs of recognition by many. On the occasion of this anniversary, this essay briefly deals with some of the reasons for which Dante, in his work Divine Comedy, assigned God’s Prophet Mohammed a place in hell. The essay deals with the issues of sources and literature, primarily medieval, which had impact on Dante in the formation of his general notion of Islam and Mohammed, a.s. The essay suggests that Dante did not put a stop to the European medieval, mostly negative and very often hateful and degrading treatment of Islam and Mohammed a,s. The essay points to the need to distinguish Dante from Christianity, since Dante represents only himself, his poetry and his opinion