The Liber Scalae Machometz was identified as a principal source of the Divine Comedy.

Evidence

In the meantime E. Cerulli and J. M. Munoz published their editions of the Liber Scalae Machometz, the translations of the kitab al-mi’raj, or account of Muhammad’s Night Journey to Heaven, which Asin identified as a principal source of the Divine Comedy. Although it was to shed light upon Dante’s sources that both these scholars undertook their work, both published a considerable quantity of other material, chiefly relating to Islamic concepts of Heaven. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader scholarly debate about Dante’s Islamic sources, a classic case of cross-civilizational literary transmission.