The more proper Arabic form might be Abd al-Hazred or simply Abdul Hazred, although these are still anomalous, as Hazred is not one of the 99 Names of God.
Hali was killed by invisible djinns and eventually became a Lake.Ībdul Alhazred is not an Arabic name. Hali, is the author of the Kitab Al-Hikmah Al-Najmiyya later translated as Liber Stella Sapiente or Hali's Booke of the Wisdom of the Stars. After obtaining the map, which revealed the location of R'lyeh and other secret places, Shrewsbury finally let Alhazred return to his eternal rest.Īccording to one account, Abdul Alhazred is Howard Phillips Lovecraft's literary equivalent of Mad Arab Khalid ibn Yazhid, also known simply as Hali, using a made up name from his youth. Then Shrewsbury used necromancy to recall Alhazred's spirit and ordered it to draw a map of the world as he knew it.
Though only rugs, bones and dust remained of Alhazred, the sarcophagus also contained an incomplete personal copy of the Necronomicon, written in the Arabic alphabet. But Shrewbury proceeded in entering the chamber and opening the sarcophagus. The entrance to the chamber warned against disturbing him. Then they blinded him and severed his tongue, and finally executed him. As punishment for his betrayal of their secrets, Alhazred was tortured. Alhazred was kidnapped in Damascus and brought to the Nameless City, where he had earlier studied and learned some of the Necronomicon's secrets. He indeed found the gate of Alhazred's burial chamber and learned of his fate. Shrewsbury, as an old agent of Hastur and devoted enemy of his half-brother Cthulhu, crossed its gates in search of Alhazred's burial site. At the center of the area they discovered the Nameless City, a domain of Hastur. It may be a reference to the "Rubʿ al Khali", or "The Empty Quarter", the vast southern portion of the Arabian Desert. There, Shrewsbury and Colum found the unexplored desert area the Necronomicon names as "Roba el Ehaliyeh," or "Roba el Khaliyeh" - perhaps a form of "Rabia al-Awliya" (which, again, is not proper Arabic, but could be an allusion to the Sufi Saint Rabia). More specifically, they were heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, and crossed the border into Yemen. Laban Shrewsbury and his assistant Naylan Colum discovered Alhazred's burial site. No matter what, his work would live on for centuries to come.ĭr. Around 738 A.D., Alhazred was killed by either an invisible monster who devoured him or a Destroying Angel who had obliterated him. Those who have any dealings with the Necronomicon usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception. 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. During this time he visited places such as Iram, the City of the Pillars, the catacombs of Egypt and the temple of Nug and Yeb in the Crimson Desert. For reasons unknown he left the city and spent ten years wandering in the deserts. Rasputin in particular would use the knowledge of the Necronomicon to open a gateway for the Outer Gods, allowing these beings to cross over into the mortal plane of existence.Īppearance Personality Powers and Abilities HistoryĪlhazred was a poet in the court of a minor nobleman in the city of Sanaá. The Necronomicon would be translated and passed around the world, ending up in the hands of the likes of Miskatonic University and Grigori Rasputin. His exposure to the Old Ones and their dark but hidden history enlightened him to become a scholar for these abominations. The man was known to worship Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu, with the former presumably instructing him on all the cosmic knowledge and lore for the Necronomicon.
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