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According to the Koran, there are four archangels. Gaʹbriel, the angel of revelations, who writes down the divine decrees; Miʹchael, the champion, who fights the battles of faith; Azʹrael, the angel of death; and Azʹrafil, who is commissioned to sound the trumpet of the resurrection.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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