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Eblis  n.  (Written also Eblees)  (Moham. Myth.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.






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"Eblis" Quotes from Famous Books



... the taster rise, Of Dervish or of Almeh dances! Of Eblis, or of Paradise, Set all ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... should the bravest boast of descending, saving from him that is bravest?" said the Saracen; "from whom should the proudest trace their line so well as from the Dark Spirit, which would rather fall headlong by force than bend the knee by his will? Eblis may be hated, stranger, but he must be feared; and such as Eblis ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott

... was created. Abraham Ecchelensis gives the following account of Lilith and her doings: "There are some who do not regard spectres as simple devils, but suppose them to be of a mixed nature—part demoniacal, part human, and to have had their origin from Lilith, Adam's first wife, by Eblis, prince of the devils. This fable has been transmitted to the Arabs, from Jewish sources, by some converts of Mohamet from Cabbalism and Rabbinism, who have transferred all the Jewish fooleries to the Arabs. They gave to Adam a wife formed of clay, along with Adam, and called her Lilith, ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier

... fallen—but too late, a bare instant too late. And shrinking as we fled from it, still it seemed to strain like some fettered Afrit from Eblis, throbbing with wrath, seeking with every malign power it possessed to break its bonds and pursue. Not until long after were we to know that it had been the dying hand of Serku, groping out of oblivion, that had cast it after us as a ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... some ancient world, and seemed to stare at him with still and angry brows. Upward still, to black terraces of lava, standing out hard and black against the grey cloud, gleaming like iron in the moonlight, stair above stair, like those over which Vathek and the Princess climbed up to the halls of Eblis. Over their crumbling steps, up through their cracks and crannies, out upon a dreary slope of broken stones, and then,— before he dives upward into the cloud ten yards above his head,—one breathless look ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley

... Opera that the Desert is the sole thing not enjoined to 'bless the Lord, praise Him and magnify Him for ever.' This is because when our illustrious father, the Lord Adam, and his august consort, the Lady Eve, were expelled from Eden, Eblis the Accursed, fearful lest mankind should return ultimately to the favour of Allah, set himself to burn and lay waste all the lands east and west ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

... Tcherkass, for his pleasure, And Kergoosian captive is dancing; In the eyes of the first heaven's azure, In the others black Eblis is glancing. ...
— Mollie Charane - and Other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise

... of every one. Demoniac Servant remarks, "Ha! ha!" ULRIC and the Demons sink through the floor. Scene changes to the Studio of Eblis. ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various



Words linked to "Eblis" :   djinny, Muslimism, Mohammedanism, genie, djinn, Muhammadanism, Islamism, djinni



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