![]() ![]() He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent.biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broaddaylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozenwitnesses. In his last years Alhazred dwelt inDamascus, where the Necronomicon ( Al Azif) was written,and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible andconflicting things are told. Of thisdesert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those whopretend to have penetrated it. ![]() He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secretsof Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert ofArabia - the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients - and"Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to beinhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. ![]() Original title Al Azif - azif being the word used by Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons.Ĭomposed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who issaid to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa700 A.D. ![]()
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