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'''Abd al-Azrad''' (700? AD-738 AD), also known as Abdul Alhazred, was a creation of the weird-fiction author [[Howard Philips Lovecraft]].  Lovecraft named al-Azrad as the author of the ''Kitab Al-Azif'', the Arabic translation of the equally fictional ''Necronomicon'', in Lovecraft's [[Cthulhu]] Mythos, or "Yog-Sothothery", series of stories. Abd al-Azred was the pseudonym created by Lovecraft originally as a child during a period of infatuation with the ''1001 Arabian Nights''.  

'''Abd al-Azrad''' (700? AD-738 AD), also known as Abdul Alhazred, was a creation of the weird-fiction author [[Howard Philips Lovecraft]].  Lovecraft named al-Azrad as the author of the ''Kitab Al-Azif'', the Arabic translation of the equally fictional ''Necronomicon'', in Lovecraft's [[Cthulhu]] Mythos, or "Yog-Sothothery", series of stories. Abd al-Azred was the pseudonym created by Lovecraft originally as a child during a period of infatuation with the ''1001 Arabian Nights''.

 

==References==

==References==

Dalcher, Allan.  ''History of the World''.  New York: Dutlow Press, 2000.

Dalcher, Allan.  ''History of the World''.  New York: Dutlow Press, 2000.

*{{cite book|author=August Derleth|chapter=The Keeper of the Key|origyear=1951|title=Quest for Cthulhu|year=2000|location=New York, NY|publisher=Carroll & Graf|id=ISBN 0-7867-0752-6}}

*{{cite book|author=August Derleth|chapter=The Keeper of the Key|origyear=1951|title=Quest for Cthulhu|year=2000|location=New York, NY|publisher=Carroll & Graf|id=ISBN 0-7867-0752-6}}