Muhammad’s Mi’râj became a lavishly embellished popular tour of heaven and hell

Evidence

Particularly popular was the story of Muhammad’s celestial voyage (Mi’râj), vaguely alluded to in the Koran (17:1), a tour of heaven and hell described in increasingly baroque detail throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 179

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth tracing how the Mi’râj legend spread westward — it later influenced Dante’s Inferno, which connects to this book’s theme of Christian reception of Islam.