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  Abdul Alhazred - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by the horror writer H.
Abdul Alhazred is not a real Arabic name, and seems to contain the Arabic definite article morpheme twice in a row (rather anomalous in terms of Arabic grammar).
Abdul Alhazred was originally Lovecraft's childhood play-name, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five years old.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Alhazred   (820 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred (Necronomicon creator, Wolverine foe)
Alhazred uses a band of servants to perform tasks for him, such as kidnapping, guarding prisoners, fighting his enemies, etc. He controls his servants through fear and intimidation.
Alhazred, who had been unharmed by any previous attacks, was greatly pained by the energies from this weapon, which killed his hawk as well.
Alhazred attacked Tarzan, planning to sacrifice him instead, but found that the crystal was feeding off his own energies as well, and he was now vulnerable to other assaults, such as from Tarzan's knife.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/alhazred.htm   (1880 words)

  
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Alhazred, in his demented mind, thought that the vast desert would allow him the peace and tranquility that he so desperately needed.
Alhazred began his quest almost a score of years ago and felt that he was close to the ultimate answer.
Alhazred decided that they were merely the imaginary gods of some race lost in the vestiges of time.
crypt.eldritchs.com /tome/1805.txt   (1457 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred - Uncyclopedia
Abdul Alhazred is a subjective interpretation of an advertising phenomenon of the genera Archaeoglobus Ferroglobus built by an expert in the ancient art of Lovecraft, famous for his posthumous work in the dark arts of pottery and economics (possible mistranslation - 'Dark arts and pottery and economics?).
Abdul Alhazred is the famed author of the Velcronomicon (often misattributed under a variety of different titles), a motivational self-help recipe and politically-subversive satirical children's cartoon aimed at the 15-to-78 year-old warlock demographic.
Abdul Alhazred participating in the D-day Landings in 1944.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Alhazred   (771 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred's agents (Wolverine foes)
HISTORY: When Abdul Alhazred sought to takeover the island of Madripoor, he has his agent, the Sheik, organize a band of unrelated mercenaries.
Alhazred's servants were sent to prison in Madripoor, which harsh as it was, was apparently the lesser of two evils compared to returning to Alhazred empty-handed.
Alhazred, or an incarnation of him, was active @ 1920-1930, when he was affiliated with a man, Glen Barrett, who has no known connection to Barret, who served him in the modern era.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/alhazag.htm   (338 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abdul Alhazred, or the Mad Arab, is a fictional character created by the horror writer H.
The term "Mad Arab" in reference to Alhazred is always capitalised and used in the manner of an official title such as another person would be called "Prince" or "Sir" and the term can actually be used in lieu of Alhazred's name as a synonym.
In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly authored in Arabic a book of ultimate evil, al Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon.
abdulalhazred.quickseek.com   (676 words)

  
 Campus Crusade for Cthulhu: The NECRONOMICON ANTI-FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alhazred appears to have had access to many sources now lost, and events which are only hinted at in Genesis or the apocryphal Book of Enoch, or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail.
According to Alhazred, the Old Ones were beings from "beyond the spheres", presumably the spheres of the planets, and in the cosmography of that period this would imply the region of the fixed stars or beyond.
Alhazred carried out his more significant investigations while wandering in the Rub al Khali, a vast and empty desert wasteland in the south of Arabia - the remoteness from other human beings helped to shift his consciousness into the utterly alien perspectives of the Aethyrs.
www.locksley.com /cthulhu/necron.htm   (6135 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Derleth further wrote on the final of Alhazred in his story "The Keeper the Key" first published in May 1951.
He indeed found the gate Alhazred's burial chamber and learned of his Alhazred was kidnapped in Damascus and brought the Nameless City where he had earlier and learned some of Necronomicon's secrets.
Abdul was the first female artist in history to have four songs hit #1 on the billboard charts from a debut album.
www.freeglossary.com /Abdul_Alhazred   (883 words)

  
 Llewellyn Journal - Alhazred\'s Necronomicon
Alhazred is mentioned by name and quoted in the Nameless City, written and published in 1921.
The persona of Alhazred remained with Lovecraft, in the secret chambers of his memory, and when he needed to name an author for his Necronomicon, that is the name he chose.
Alhazred was born shortly after the prophet Mohamed finished the conquest of the region we call the Middle East.
www.llewellynjournal.com /article/922   (2104 words)

  
 Llewellyn's On-line Bookstore: Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon
Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures.
Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his divine skill in poetry.
Renamed Alhazred, he escapes the desert and embarks on a quest to restore his body and reunite with his true love.
www.llewellyn.com /bookstore/book.php?pn=J892&affiliate=05FCK   (194 words)

  
 HPLA - Quotes Regarding the Necronomicon from Lovecraft's Letters
Abdul is a favourite dream-character of mine—indeed that is what I used to call myself when I was five years old and a transported devotee of Andrew Lang’s version of the Arabian Nights.
By the way—there is no “Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.” That hellish & forbidden volume is an imaginative conception of mine, which others of the W.T. group have also used as a background of allusion.
The name “Abdul Alhazred” is one which some adult (I can’t recall who) devised for me when I was 5 years old & eager to be an Arab after reading the Arabian Nights.
www.hplovecraft.com /creation/necron/letters.asp   (1087 words)

  
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As Alhazred continued his bizarre cycle of thought he noticed not the paved stones peeking up at him from the sand below his sandaled feet.
The writing was in a system of hieroglyph-ics unknown to Alhazred, consisting for the most part of Bovine creatures and the like.
It was this experience that prompted Abdul Alhazred to scribe the original Arabic text, AL AZIF, later translated into the BOVINOMICON.
www.ladyoftheearth.com /stories/nameless.txt   (1425 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abdul Alhazred is not an Arabic name[Click link for more facts about this topic].
Derleth further wrote on the final fate of Alhazred in his story "The Keeper of the Key", EHandler: no quick summary.
Alhazred was kidnapped in Damascus and brought to the Nameless City, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abdul_alhazred.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Dan Clore: Colin Low's Necronomicon (Anti-)FAQ with Commentary
Just as Nostradamus used ritual magic to probe the future, so Alhazred used similar techniques (and an incense composed of olibanum, storax, dictamnus, opium and hashish) to clarify the past, and it is this, combined with a lack of references, which resulted in the Necronomicon being dismissed as largely worthless by historians.
Alhazred appears to have had access to many sources now lost, and events which are only hinted at in the Book of Genesis or the apocryphal Book of Enoch, or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail.
He shared with some neo-platonists the belief that stars are like our sun, and have their own unseen planets with their own lifeforms, but elaborated this belief with a good deal of metaphysical speculation in which these beings were part of a cosmic hierarchy of spiritual evolution.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/9879/necfaq.htm   (2483 words)

  
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He is often referred to as "the mad Arab", and while he was certainly eccentric by modern standards,re is no evidence to substantiate a claim of madness, other than a chronic inability to sustain atanof thought for more than a few paragraphs before leaping off at a tangent.
Alhazred appears to have had access to manurces now lost, and events which are only hinted at in the Book of Genesis or the apocryphal Booko nch, or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail.
Alhazred may hav uedduious magical techniques to clarify the past, but he also shared with 5th.
artofhacking.com /IET/OCCULT/NECRONOM.TXT   (1784 words)

  
 Re: Meaning of the name Abdul Alhazred?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The story of Abdul Alhazred's life may be found in Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon".
In any case, it should be noted that the name Abdul Alhazred is not a properly-formed Arabic name.
The element -ul in Abdul is identical to the al- of Alhazred, thus meaning that this element is simply repeated.
www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.necronomicon/messages/11927.html   (562 words)

  
 The Cthulhu Lexicon - The A's
Abdul Alhazred was rumored to be a member of the tribe of Ad, one of the four mysterious, little-known tribes of Arabia.
It is reported that Alhazred was born sometime around 700 A.D. in the area of Yemen.
Alhazred was a student of magic, an astronomer, poet, philosopher and scientist.
www.netherreal.de /library/lex_entry/a1.htm   (2344 words)

  
 Articles: Die Bücher des Mythos (Auf Duestch)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ansonsten ist nicht viel mehr über Alhazred bekannt.
Hier beschrieb er knapp alle wichtigen geschichtlichen Fakten, von Abdul Alhazred beginnend bis zu den übersetzungen, die bis zur heutigen Zeit noch existieren.
Dort wird auch Abdul Alhazred als Verfasser genannt, aber es wird nicht näher auf Inhalt oder Geschichte des Buches eingegangen, noch wird es mit dem Cthulhu-Mythos in Zusammenhang gebracht.
www.shoggoth.net /article.php3?story_id=558&submit=print   (785 words)

  
 TheAsylumsGate
According to him Necronomicon was written in the 8th Century AD by the "mad Arab" Alhazred, and was translated into Greek under the title Necronomicon by Theodorus Philetas in AD 950, then into Latin by Olias Wormius in 1228.
In his last years Alhazred wrote the Al Azif and died or disappeared 738 A.D. I said disappeared, because it was claimed that he was seized, in front of a large number number of witnesses, by an invisible monster.
The book was influenced by Alhazred’s studies of many original sources now lost (the Book of Genesis or the apocryphal Book of Enoch etc. Alhazred used magical techniques to clarify the past, but he also shared with 5th.
theasylumsgate.com /articles/necro.html   (1529 words)

  
 Abdul Alhazred - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
In this story Dr._Laban_Shrewsbury (a recurring Derleth character), and his assistant at the time Naylan_Colum discovered Alhazred's burial site.
At the center of the area they discovered the Nameless_City, a domain of Hastur.
Though only rugs, bones and dust were all that remained of Alhazred, the sarcophagus also contained an incomplete personal copy of the Necronomicon, written in the Arabic_alphabet.
www.indexsuche.com /Abdul_Alhazred.html   (504 words)

  
 Miskatonic University - Al Azif Project
During the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, the alleged original remains of the Al Azif of Abdul Alhazred were smuggled out of Tibet to India and, eventually, to the United States where, in 1982, it found its way to the Miskatonic University Library.
It still does not explain how Tibetan cultists knew of Alhazred unless stolen copies of the manuscript had made their way there or Alhazred himself had been in Tibet and revealed his intention to write the book of his travels.
While the Necronomicon (as it has come to be known) is the story of Alhazred’s travels in search of Nathica, the Persian princess, who disappeared in an exhibition of magic (seemingly as the price of the incantation), it encompasses the entire history of the pre-human and early human period.
www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/deasternstudies/azifproj/azif02.htm   (1188 words)

  
 The Necronomicron, a Devil Worshipper's Delight!
For a little history, Abdul Alhazred, the really crazy Arab, wrote the original Necronomicron.
In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told.
He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th century biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.
members.tripod.com /The_Conspiracy_Game/badbook.htm   (422 words)

  
 The Necronomicon
Alhazred was a visionary and an interpreter of dreams and portents and was held in superstitious awe and loathing during his lifetime.
A cursory glance through their pages shows he obviously has knowledge of the Necronomicon and its pantheon of deities and, with his extensive occult library it is fair to assume he owns the cursed book in one form or another.
Mankind was never meant to know those things hinted at by Abdul Alhazred in the Necronomicon and it is better that we live on "our placid island of ignorance" and continue to believe that the Necronomicon is the fictional invention of the horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
www.clivejones.i12.com /aeons2.htm   (2458 words)

  
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Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad cow herder of Sanna, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Omminade Caliphs, circa AD 700.
In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the BOVINOMICON (AL AZIF) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (AD 738) many terrible and conflicting things are told.
He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th century biography) to have been seized by an invisible cow in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.
www.textfiles.com /groups/CDC/cDc-0057.txt   (802 words)

  
 Llewellyn's On-line Bookstore: Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred
Anyone familiar with H. Lovecraft's work knows of the Necronomicon, the fl magic grimoire he invented as a literary prop in his classic horror stories.
This grimoire traces the wanderings of Abdul Alhazred, a necromancer of Yemen, on his search for arcane wisdom and magic.
Alhazred's magical adventures lead him to the Arabian desert, the lost city of Irem, ruins of Babylon, lands of the Old Ones, and Damascus, where he encounters a variety of strange creatures and accrues necromantic secrets.
www.llewellyn.com /bookstore/book.php?pn=J627   (324 words)

  
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=============================================================================== In a distant land, in a distant time, the mad arab, Abdul Alhazred, began a horrific journey into the Roba El Kaliyeh ("Empty Space"), the vast desert of southern Arabia.
Dazed and frightened, yet not without a certain thrill of the scientist's or archaeologist's delight, Alhazred examined his surroundings more closely.
Alhazred sang a great deal, and laughed oddly when unable to sing.
www.cultdeadcow.com /cDc_files/cDc-0058.txt   (1457 words)

  
 Szalony Mag Abdul Alhazred - postać specjalna do gry bitewnej Mordheim
Abdul Alhazred zyskał sławę jako Szalony Mag z arabskiego miasta Sanaa.
Psychologia:Abdul Alhazred był świadkiem wielu z okropieństw Krainy Śmierci.
Mistrz Dżinów: Abdul Alhazred rozmawiał z wieloma mistycznymi Dżinami.
teksty.gildia.pl /skolo/bohaterowie_spec/abdullach   (359 words)

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