It is also thought by some to be a corruption of sorts on the phrase ' All has read,' to imply he has read lots, 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 AlHa Zred : Arabic = ' 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). With Abdul meaning ' slave of' Abdul Alhazred could mean a slave of all that has been read, in reference to Lovecraft and his youthful all-consuming pursuit, or to his creation of the Cthulhu mythos and being a slave of it even while its creator it more aptly applies to the character Abdul Alhazred who truly was enslaved by what he read, and became a servant of unfathomable evil.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. It might also have been a play on ' all-has-read', since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.

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). He is the so-called ' Mad Arab' credited with authoring the fictional book Kitab al-Azif ( the Necronomicon), and as such is an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore.Ībdul Alhazred was a pseudonym adopted by Lovecraft after reading 1001 Arabian Nights in his early childhood.

850 C.E.) known as The Book of the Essence of the Soul -so the story went.Ībdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. saw a copy of The Necronomicon in Boston (where he worked), which was a section of a book by Alkindi (d. Stanislaus Hinterstoisser, president of the Salzburg Institute for the Study of Magic and Occult Phenomena, who was said to have claimed that Lovecraft's father was an Egyptian Freemason. Wilson told a story as fabulous as that of the origin of the Golden Dawn cipher manuscript. In an introduction to this publication, Wilson suggested that Lovecraft's invention may have had some substance in fact, perhaps revealed through Lovecraft's subconscious mind.

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