- The composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann used this tale, along with Book of Ecclesiastes, in his oratorio Ecclesiastical Action.[9]
- The poem was filmed as Inquisition[10] in 2002 for Channel 5 in the UK, starring Sir Derek Jacobi as the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor.
- Peter Brook produced a play based on "The Grand Inquisitor" starring Bruce Myers, performed at The Barbican, London, in February 2006.[11][12]
- Louis Althusser cites "The Grand Inquisitor" as the original 'anticipatory' anti-socialist/anti-totalitarianism ideological work, in the chapter "On Ideology" in On the Reproduction of Capitalism.[13]
- Orhan Pamuk transfers the story into an Islamic context in chapter 14 of his novel The Black Book, with a conversation between the Mahdi and the Great Pasha.[14]
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