Al-Azif

The original Arabic text of the work better known as Necronomicon. Named after a sound, made by nocturnal insects, that resembled the howling of daemons. The Arabic original was thought to be lost by Olaus Wormius' time, ca. 1228. [HPL History (online text)]

Prof. Laban Shrewsbury and Nayland Colum questioned the spirit of Abdul Alhazred and retrieved his personal copy of the Al-Azif from his tomb in the Nameless City [AWD Keeper].

At Billington house, Stephen Bates found a manuscript volume called Al Azif—Ye Booke of Ye Arab, which had hand-copied passages from the Greek and Latin translations. The original Al-Azif was written in about the year A.D. 730 at Damascus by an Arab poet named Abdul Alhazred. [AWD Lurker]

See: Necronomicon.

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