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Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
The first poetical tale in Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh.
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
was Hakim ben Allah, surnamed the Veiled (Mokanna), founder
of an Arabic sect in the eighth century. Having lost an eye, and being
otherwise disfigured in battle, he wore a veil to conceal his face, but
his followers said it was done to screen his dazzling brightness. He
assumed to be a
god, and maintained that he had been Adam, Noah, and other
representative men. When encompassed by Sultan Mahadi, he first
poisoned all his followers at a banquet, and then threw himself into a
burning acid, which wholly destroyed his body.
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