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AL-AZĀRIQAH (الازارقة). A sect of heretics founded by Nāfiʿ ibn al-Azraq, who say that ʿAlī was an infidel, and that his assassin was right in killing him. (See ash-Shahrastānī, ed. Cureton, p. ٨٩, Haarbruecker’s translation, I., p. 133.)
AL-ʿAẒBĀʾ (العضباء). The slit-eared; one of Muḥammad’s favourite camels.
AL-AẒḤĀ (الاضحى). [ʿIDUʾL-AZHA.]
AL-ʿAZ̤ĪM (العظيم). One of the ninety-nine special names of God. “The great One.”
ʿAZĪMAH (عزيمة). An incantation. [EXORCISM.]
AL-ʿAZĪZ (العزيز). One of the ninety-nine special names of God. It frequently occurs in the Qurʾān. It means “the powerful, or the mighty One.”
ʿAZRĀʾĪL (عزرائيل). The angel of Death. Mentioned in the Qurʾān under the title of Malaku ʾl-Maut, Sūrah xxxii. 11, “The angel of death who is charged with you shall cause you to die.” [MALAKU ʾL-MAUT.]
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BABEL. Arabic بابل Bābil. Mentioned once in the Qurʾān, Sūrah ii. 96: “Sorcery did they teach to men, and what had been revealed to the two angels Hārūt and Mārūt at Bābil.” Babel is regarded by the Muslims as the fountain-head of the science of magic. They suppose Hārūt and Mārūt to be two angels who, in consequence of their want of compassion for the frailties of mankind, were sent down to earth to be tempted. They both sinned, and, being permitted to choose whether they would be punished now or hereafter, chose the former, and are still suspended by the feet at Babel in a rocky pit, and are the great teachers of magic. (Lane’s Thousand and One Nights, ch. iii. note 14.) Vide Tafsīr-i-ʿAzīzī in loco.