Brewer's: Azim

The young convert who joined “the creed and standard” of the veiled prophet of Khorassan, in Moore's Lalla Rookh. When he was witness of the prophet's infamy, he joined the caliph's army, and was mainly instrumental in defeating that of the veiled prophet.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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