Note 165 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE
Harold Sunderland translation
Cf. Rossi, I, 140, and see the general plan Figura universale della D.C. in Fraticelli, p. 402. For the Moslem traditions cf. Kanz, VI, 102, Nos. 1, 538; 1,546 and 1,601; and VII, 277, Nos. 3,076/7. The belief that the mouth of hell is situated beneath Jerusalem is still held in Islam, for the Moslems believe that below the subterranean chamber underneath the present Mosque or dome of the rock (Qubbat al-sakhra) standing in the precincts of the Temple, lies the pit of the souls (Bir al-arwah).