Editing Isra' and Mi'raj (section)

== Similarities to other traditions ==
Traditions of living persons ascending to heaven are also found in early Jewish and Christian literature.<ref>Bremmer, Jan N. "Descents to hell and ascents to heaven in apocalyptic literature." JJ Collins (Hg.), The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature, Oxford (2014): 340-357.</ref> The [[Book of Enoch]], a late [[Second Temple Judaism|Second Temple]] Jewish [[Jewish apocrypha|apocryphal work]], describes a tour of heaven given by an angel to the patriarch [[Enoch]], the great-grandfather of [[Noah]]. According to Brooke Vuckovic, early Muslims may have had precisely this ascent in mind when interpreting Muhammad's night journey.<ref>Vuckovic, Brooke Olson. Heavenly journeys, earthly concerns: the legacy of the mi'raj in the formation of Islam. Routledge, 2004, 46.</ref>

The similarity of many details in the Miraj narratives to [[Zoroastrian]] literature is striking. While critics argue that these narratives are a transfer from [[Book of Arda Viraf|Zoroastrian literature]], another claim argues that the relevant literature was written after Islam.<ref>https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/sources/zrisra</ref>