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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Hamdard Foundation
2018-12-01
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Series: | Hamdard Islamicus |
Online Access: | https://hamdardislamicus.com.pk/index.php/hi/article/view/79 |