aimed at deflecting and taming disruptive imperial fervor – praising but only faintly the man who flared out France’s glory, and placing him in a narrative sequence where he could pass into history and out of living hearts. Not
He indicated not only Crowley but a host of others, like Abu Nuwas (al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami) – the influential Abbasid court-poet and hadith teacher whose blasphemous poetry praising buggery widely circulated in the Caliphate. “If the Dajjal wants to influence, for example, Jewish ...