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'''Abd al-Azrad''' (700? AD-738 AD) was an [[Arabic]] scholar, [[astronomer]], and poet.  Born in Sanaa, [[Yemen]], al-Azrad travelled to Babylon, Egypt, and the Arabian desert.  His master work, an encyclopedia called ''Kitab Al-Azif'', has been lost.

'''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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