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Eblis

noun
(Written also Eblees)
1.
(Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.





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"Eblis" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the boat, our silent boatman, like a spectral gondolier, rowed us silently along the labyrinthine canals of this dim and ghostly Venice. Vathek Beckford would have made them waterways to the Hall of Eblis. ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... 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 back upon ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley


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


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