He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. 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. Of his final death or disappearance ( 738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred reputedly authored in Arabic, a book of ultimate evil, " al Azif", which would later become known as the Necronomicon. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia - the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients - and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Lovecraft.Īccording to Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon"( written 1927, first published 1938), Alhazred was:Ī mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. Abdul Alhazred (sometimes called the "Mad Arab") is a fictional character created by the horror writer H.
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