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Azrael
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Azrael (; , 'God has helped'; ) is the canonical angel of death in Islam and appears centuries earlier in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.
Azrael is an angel traditionally understood as the angel of death in Islamic theology and religious tradition. The figure also appears in much earlier Christian apocryphal writings, specifically the Apocalypse of Peter, making it a shared religious concept across different faith traditions with a long history in religious texts.
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- Etymology and place in Judaism
- Islam
- In Quran and its exegesis
- In hadiths
- Relationship between Azrael and death
- Saints and prophets
- Western reception
- See also
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Azrael (; , 'God has helped'; ) is the canonical angel of death in Islam and appears centuries earlier in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.
Relative to similar concepts of such beings, Azrael holds a benevolent role as God's angel of death; he acts as a psychopomp, responsible for transporting the souls of the deceased after their death. In Islam, he is said to hold a scroll concerning the fate of mortals, recording and erasing their names at their birth and death, similar to the role of the malakh ha-mavet (Angel of Death) in Judaism.