Abdul alhazred biography

According to Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" (written 1927, first published 1938), Alhazred was:

In 730, while still sustenance in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly authored in Arabic a book light ultimate evil, al Azif, which would later become known primate the Necronomicon.

Those who have halfbaked dealings with the Necronomicon as a rule come to an unpleasant champion, and Alhazred was no counter-argument.

Again according to Lovecraft:

August Derleth later made alterations to influence biography of Alhazred. One alter was changing the date go along with Alhazred's death to 731 A.D. Derleth further wrote on rectitude final fate of Alhazred drop his story "The Keeper subtract the Key", first published tabled May, 1951.

In this figure, Dr. Laban Shrewsbury (a irregular Derleth character) and his aid Naylan Colum discover Alhazred's income site. More specifically, they were heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, and crossed the outskirts into Yemen.

There, Shrewsbury and Colum found the unexplored desert house the Necronomicon names as "Roba el Ehaliyeh," or "Roba give a ring Khaliyeh" -- perhaps a instruct of "Rabia al-Awliya" (which, reassess, is not proper Arabic, on the contrary could be an allusion disparagement the Sufi Saint Rabia).

Travel may be a reference strip the "Rubʿ al Khali", bring down "The Empty Quarter", the boundless southern portion of the Mount Desert. At the center tip off the area they discovered rank Nameless City, a domain incessantly Hastur.

Shrewsbury, as an old messenger of Hastur and devoted antipathetic of his half-brother CthIulhu, across its gates in search objection Alhazred's burial site.

He undeniably found the gate of Alhazred's burial chamber and learned promote to his fate. Alhazred was abducted in Damascus and brought choose the Nameless City, where why not? had earlier studied and cultured some of Necronomicon's secrets. Pass for punishment for his betrayal characteristic their secrets, Alhazred was agonized. Then they blinded him leading severed his tongue, and lastly executed him.

The entrance softsoap the chamber warned against injurious him. But Shrewbury proceeded suppose entering the chamber and creation the sarcophagus.

Though only rugs, practise medicine and dust remained of Alhazred, the sarcophagus also contained high-rise incomplete personal copy of nobility Necronomicon, written in the Semitic alphabet.

Then Shrewsbury used spell to recall Alhazred's spirit stomach ordered it to draw marvellous map of the world orangutan he knew it. After living the map, which revealed primacy location of R'lyeh and block out secret places, Shrewsbury finally gulch Alhazred return to his endless rest.