The Kitab al-Mi’raj’s popularity shifted polemic toward spiritual misreadings of Heaven

Evidence

The enormous popularity of the kitab al-mi‘raj, the Lzber Scalae, the book of Muhammad’s miraculous night ascent into Heaven, drew further attention to the Islamic Heaven, though less powerfully to the carnal delights than to what seemed the carnal mis- understanding of spiritual concepts and to the fabulous treatment of the Prophets and of Christ. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 840