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IBLIS  , or EBLis, in Moslem

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mythology the counterpart of the
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Christian and Jewish
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devil . He figures oftener in the
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Koran under the name Shaitan, Iblis being mentioned r 1 times, whereas Shaitan appears in 87 passages . He is
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chief of the
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spirits of evil, and his
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personality is adapted to that of his Jewish prototype . Iblis rebelled against
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Allah and was expelled from
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Paradise . The Koranic
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legend is that his fall was a
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punishment for his refusal to
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worship
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Adam . Condemned to
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death he was afterwards respited till the
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judgment
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day (Koran vii . 13) . See Gustav Well, The
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Bible, the Koran and the
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Talmud (
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London, 1846) .

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