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In Dantes' Inferno , why was Saladin a Muslim and more importantly the enemy to the crusaders in Limbo while Muhammad the Prophet is in actual Hell? Did Europeans at the time like Saladin or what?

by /u/Thefishlord in /r/AskHistorians

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