AbË Huraira’s Cat in Goethe’s Paradise

It is an old question of Goethe Forschung1 why did the poet include a cat, AbË Hurairah’s nameless kitten, among the four privileged animals allowed to enter Paradise. Around the end of the Book of Paradise of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan (West-östlicher Divan, WöD for short), in the poem Favoured A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: GABOR KORVIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hamdard Foundation 2018-12-01
Series:Hamdard Islamicus
Online Access:https://hamdardislamicus.com.pk/index.php/hi/article/view/79