The devil goes by many names. In the Qu'ran, the name of Satan is إِبْلِيسَ (Iblees), the origins of which are unknown. In English, Satan comes from the Hebrew שָׂטָן (Shatan) - a name found in many other modern languages. What about Beelzebub? That also came from Hebrew, the original title being בעל זבוב (Ba'al Zabub), which meant 'Lord of the Flies'. It's no coincidence that the 1954 William Golding novel bears the same name. The allegory of the devil aptly summarised the primal madness that descends upon the book's characters.
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