Note 61 — Chapter I · THE IMAGINATIVE GROUP

Cf. Lady Burton’s version of Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights, edited by J. H. McCarthy (London, 1886), n., p. 11, which, following the Koran and the Talmud, calls Iblis (Eblis) a rebellious angel who refused to worship Adam, caused Adam and Eve to lose Paradise, and still betrays mankind.

Cf. E. W. Lane, Arabian Society in the Middle Ages, Studies in the Arabian Nights, edited by S. Lane-Poole, London, 1883, who, on p. 32, says, “Iblees is represented as saying, ‘Thou hast created me of fire and hast created him [Adam] of earth.’ Kur. VII. and XXXVIII., 77.”