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| − | '''Abd al-Azrad''' (700? AD-738 AD) was | + | '''Abd al-Azrad''' (700? AD-738 AD) was a creation of the wierd-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 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''. |
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Revision as of 14:23, June 29, 2007
Abd al-Azrad (700? AD-738 AD) was a creation of the wierd-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 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
Dalcher, Allan. History of the World. New York: Dutlow Press, 2000.