The most powerful book about magic ever written that, according to rumours, worries (scars) even the Vatican itself, was written in the 8th century B.C. in Damask by Abdul Alhazred, called the Crazy Arab. The book is named Kitab Al Azif and in direct translation it means “The book of demonic screams”. Evaluating the book on the basis of its content it becomes clear that Alhazrad, when writing the book, used much older scripts dealing with divine powers, global cataclysms and the very history of the Planet Earth. According to this old scripts the Planet Earth has been inhabited, apart from human beings, by other intelligent beings who transferred much of the their knowledge onto humans. Although those beings, the author calls them “the Olds”, left the Earth later, Alhazred thinks that they can be contacted through the magic rituals. Alhazred says that human kind shall expect the return of those beings from other dimensions of reality, on which occasion they shall take the control of the Planet Earth again.
In its later translation to Greek Kitab Al Azif book gets its new name; “Necronomicom” or “the Book of the dead”, sometimes it is translated as the Law of the dead. The book was translated on Latin in 1487 thanks to German priest Olaus Wormius. A couple of years later he has been burnt, along with all the translations, on a bonfire being condemned for heresy. Accidentally or not, he
managed to send a copy to an abbot from Spanheim, certain Johann Tritheimius. This copy is suspected to end up on the shelves of the Vatican library.
According to some data the book contains 300 pages, while an information saying that book contains 800 or even 900 pages may be encountered too (7 tomes in Latin edition). After almost a century the copy of the book appears in Prague; those days the city of the magic; thanks to mentally ill king Rudolph II. There, it ended up in the hands of English mage John K. Thanks to him the book got its English translation.
Even today no one know does anybody possesses the whole content of the book, although the oculists state that the half of its text is contained in other books like; The book of powers by Abdul Kadirov, Magus by Francis Barrett and The keys of King Solomon.
In general, the book was labelled as the product of the evil, ancient scripts say that the book affected badly even the very author who during the time he was writing the book turned from a respectable citizen into a weirdo of mad behaviour. Abdul Alhazred was born in a rich family in Sanaai, Yemen. He was an educated person, scientist and polyglot. He became famous by translating some old scripts that the colleagues of his could not decipher. A part of his life he spent at the very south of Saudi Arabia living ascetic life in the desert. Different legends have been related with the book what makes the Necronomicom even more powerful and interesting. One of those legends is about the death of the author; he was shredded to pieces by an invisible monster in the middle of the day in Mecca.
Idries Shah, the director of Institute for the cultural inquires in London, during the middle of the 20th Century conducted an inquiry throughout the libraries of India, Egypt and Arabia searching the Arabic version of the book. Obviously the quest was successful as today we encounter the information that seven copies of Kitab Al Azif is kept in couple of World known museums, one
of them is London's. Experts agree that if the book Kitab Al Azif is once offered on an auction would reach the highest possible price outbidding all other books.
