Between Heaven and Hell
Asi Moqattash, Rima Eid
This book is a comparative and analytical study of the Epistle of Forgiveness by the Arab writer and poet Abu al-'Alaa al-Ma'arri and Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. Many Arab writers and critics believe that Milton was influenced by al-Ma'arri. This book presents the correspondences and differences between the two works and refutes the claim that Paradise Lost drew on the Epistle of Forgiveness. Milton and al-Ma'arri have dealt...