Synthesis of All the Partial Comparisons

I. The many minute comparisons made in this second part of our work will now enable us to present, in the form of a synthesis of the partial results, the following conclusions:

descriptions in the Divine Comedy, although they have no parallels in the Mira], have, nevertheless, their precedents in Islamic literature, whether it be in the Koran, in the hadiths, in the Moslemlegends of the final judgment, or in the doctrine of the theologians, philosophers, and mystics.