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Dante

Cited in 3 segments across 2 recordings · 2020 to 2021 · person/person:dante-alighieri

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26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhat inspired the story of Lupe Fiasco's album The Cool? Mufti Abu Layth describes a classical tale of a poet's journey through paradise; the guest explains the resurrection story behind his album The Cool and the slave-ship myth of Drogas Wave. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri [?] (described, not named on air)Risalat al-Ghufran [?]al-A'sha [?] machine7 min 47 s1:17:52on YouTube

15 Nov 2020video Why did so many cultures believe in the evil eye? Because people long believed the eye actively shot out rays, and the belief helped explain sudden illness and misfortune. He says the evil eye itself is nonsense. Lessonposition checkedFrancis BaconThomas AquinasDanteLeonardo da Vinci machine10 min 48 s17:44on YouTube

15 Nov 2020video Is the evil eye based on science? It rested on the old belief that eyes shoot out rays, which people once took as science; Ibn al-Qayyim described envious 'arrows' from the eye. Ibn al-Haytham and later science showed that eyes only take in light. Lessonposition checkedIbn al-Haytham (Alhazen)Ibn al-Qayyim [?] (name garbled in the transcript)Francis BaconWilliam Shakespeare machine12 min 34 s28:32on YouTube