A cikin shekarun da suka biyo baya, Lovecraft ya rubuta, Azif "ya sami karbuwa sosai, duk da cewa ba a san shi ba a tsakanin masana falsafa na zamanin". A cikin 950, an fassara shi zuwa Girkanci kuma an ba shi taken Necronomicon ta Theodorus Philetas, masanin almara daga Constantinople. Wannan sigar "ta tilasta wasu masu gwaji zuwa mummunan ƙoƙari" kafin a "dakatar da su kuma a ƙone" a cikin 1050 ta Shugaban Kirista Michael (mutumin tarihi wanda ya mutu a 1059). Tambaya: Menene sunan karshe na masanin almara daga Constantinople?
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