Similarly, an article (written from an in-universe perspective) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.
"Haḍra" is also the name of the Sufi Dhikr The final taa marbuta is customarily variably turned into "t" or omitted in spoken Arabic in various varieties. However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning "Servant" and "Al" is Arabic for "the", and if "hazra" means "he prohibited", "he fenced in" or "Great Lord", then the name would mean "Servant of the Prohibited", "Servant of the Fenced in", or "Servant of the Great Lord" which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.Īn explanation that is more in sync with Arabic usage and existing Sufi tradition is that it is a corruption of "Abd-al-Hazra" عبدالحضرة, where "haẓrat" is the Persian and Ottoman Turkish form of the Arabic word "Haḍra" | Hadrat حضرة meaning "presence" used by some speakers as an honorific title before the names of prophets, saints, and also as a mnemonic for the name of Allah, as well as a common honorific title for ordinary people. It is also thought by some to be a corruption of sorts on the phrase "All has read," to imply he has read much, and has immense amounts of knowledge. Hazred could come from the Arabic word "Hazrat" meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like "red" and "hazard" both indicative of danger.
In Arabic translations, his name has appeared as Abdullah Al ḥa ẓred (عبدالله الحظرد): Arabic Template:Translحظر = "he fenced in", "he prohibited". The more proper Arabic form might be Abd-al-Hazred or Abdul Hazred. Ibn al-Haytham is said to have pretended to be mad to escape the wrath of a ruler.Ībdul Alhazred is not a real Arabic name, and seems to contain the Arabic definite article morpheme al- twice in a row (anomalous in terms of Arabic grammar). It might also have been a play on "all-has-read", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.Īnother possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic and Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics. Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a reference to the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name. The name may have been invented by Lovecraft himself or the Phillips' family lawyer Albert Baker.Ībdul is a common Arabic name component but never a name by itself. That is why it’s more fun to invent mythical works like the Necronomicon and Book of Eibon.Abdul Alhazred was a pseudonym adopted by Lovecraft after reading 1001 Arabian Nights in his early childhood. As for seriously-written books on dark, occult, and supernatural themes - in all truth they don’t amount to much. Howard is responsible for Friedrich von Junzt and his "Necronomicon", for I invented these names myself. Robert Bloch devised the idea of Ludvig Prinn and his De Vermis Mysteriis, while the Book of Eibon is an invention of Clark Ashton Smith's. "Now about the "terrible and forbidden books” - I am forced to say that most of them are purely imaginary. In a letter to Willis Conover, Lovecraft elaborated upon his typical answer: Lovecraft was often asked about the veracity of the Necronomicon, and always answered that it was completely his invention.
Chambers collection of short stories The King in Yellow, which centers on a mysterious and disturbing play in book form, Lovecraft is not believed to have read that work until 1927. How Lovecraft conceived the nameNecronomicon is not clear-Lovecraft said that the title came to him in a dream. Although some have suggested that Lovecraft was influenced primarily by Robert W.
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