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Ab'dalaz'iz
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
by Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
(1810–1897)
Ab'dalaz'iz ( Omar ben ), a caliph raised to "Mahomet's bosom" in reward of his great abstinence and self-denial.— Herbelot , 690.
He was by no means scrupulous; nor did he think with the caliph Omar ben Abdalaziz that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to enjoy paradise in the next.—W. Beckford, Vathek (1786).
