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Created servants who carry out an appointed office, drawn here from Islamic and from Christian naming. Jibril, Mikail, Israfil, Malak al-Mawt, the recording Kiraman Katibin and the questioners Munkar and Nakir come from Islam, where belief in the angels is an article of faith. Uriel, Jophiel, Chamuel, Jeremiel, Raguel, Selaphiel, Barachiel and Jehudiel come from Christian and later Western lists, which vary between sources. All of them are kept apart from the archangel and Shem angel tables, which are correspondence schemes rather than the same subject.
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What Defines This GroupingNamed angels of the Abrahamic traditions taken as figures of sacred narrative, kept apart from the ranked choirs and from the spirits of ceremonial magic, which the atlas treats separately. The three religions share some names and differ over others. 2 Origins
Whose Classification This IsThe developed angelologies are largely post-biblical. Named angels appear in the later books of the Hebrew Bible and in the Second Temple apocalypses, and the ranked nine orders are a Christian scheme descending from Pseudo-Dionysius. 3 Learn More
The angels
This group holds angels, the messenger and servant spirits of the Abrahamic traditions, ranked below God and above humanity, who carry the divine word, guard, and worship. Here they appear as named figures of sacred narrative rather than as the graded choirs and magical spirits treated elsewhere in the atlas.
The browser will find the named angels of Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. The entries describe each figure's role in scripture and later tradition, noting how the three faiths share and differ over their angelology.
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