Note 17 — PART I THE LEGEND OF THE NOCTURNAL JOURNEY AND ASCENSION OF MAHOMET COMPARED WITH THE DIVINE COMEDY
Harold Sunderland translation
Inf. XII, 46 et seq. The coincidence may extend to the crime, for the Arabic text of Version B reads: “those who ate of usury,” while Dante says literally (Inf. XII, 104) that “Ei son tiranni, che dier nel sangue e nell’aver di piglio.”