Irem, City Of Pillars:
City Of Pillars (Arabic: إرَم ذَات ٱلْعِمَاد Iram dhāt al-ʿimād; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called “Irum”, “Irem”, “Erum”, “Ubar”, or the “City of the pillars”, is a lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran.
Rub’ al Khali – City Of Pillars:
The desert is 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) long, and 500 kilometres (310 miles) wide. Its surface elevation varies from 800 metres (2,600 ft) in the southwest to around sea level in the northeast.[4] The terrain is covered with sand dunes with heights up to 250 metres (820 ft), interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is of a reddish-orange color due to the presence of feldspar.
There are also brackish salt flats in some areas near to the City Of Pillars, such as the Umm al Samim area on the desert’s eastern edge.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Lord Stourton – Expert on Irem
Mr? – Missing Driver of Lord Stourton
Professor Ahmed ibn? – Archaeologist and friend of Lord Stourton
Malcolm Gaston – Real Name Malcom Garwell? a memeber of the The Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight
Abdul Al-Hazrad:
Likely a mistranslation of “Abd al–Azrad“, which would read “The worshiper of the great devourer”, this name is assigned to the original author of the Necronomicon (Kitab Al-Azif). The “Mad Arab” wrote his tome sometime before his death in 738 AD.
Abdul Alhazred is not an Arabic name. The more proper Arabic form might be Abd al-Hazred or simply Abdul Hazred, although these are still anomalous, as Hazred is not one of the 99 Names of God. In Arabic texts, his name has appeared as Abdullah al-Ḥaẓrad (عبدالله الحظرد).
Al-Hazrad roughly translates as “The Banned” or “The Ban”, although whether this is intentional is up for speculation.
Various writers have theorised on Alhazred’s true name, with one theory being that his name was originally Abd Al-‘Uzza. (EXP: Ex Libris Miskatonici)
The term “Mad Arab” in reference to Alhazred is always capitalised and used as a title, and the term can actually be used in lieu of Alhazred’s name.