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