Note 233 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE
Harold Sunderland translation
Jahiz, Hayawan (Book of Animals), V, 24. A summary of the life and writings of Jahiz is given in the author’s Abenmasarra, Appendix I, 133-137. According to Oscar Comettant, Civilisations inconnues (quoted in Larousse, Dict. Univ. s.v. Purgatoire), torture by cold also occurs in the Buddhist hell.