http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azrael
Riffian (Berber) men of Morocco had the custom of shaving the head but leaving a single lock of hair on either the crown, left, or right side of the head, so that the angel Azrael is able "...to pull them up to heaven on the Last Day."<7>
Several Muslim traditions recount meetings between Azrael and the prophets, the most famous being a conversation between Azrael and Moses<11>.
...some sources have speculated about a connection between Azrael and the human priest Ezra.

Поскольку усилия Ездры способствовали приданию еврейской религии формы, которая была призвана определять её в течение предстоящих столетий, его с определённой долей уверенности можно назвать отцом иудаизма, то есть определённой формы еврейской религии, появившейся после вавилонского плена. Она имела в глазах народа столь большое значение, что более поздняя традиция расценивала его не больше и не меньше, как второго Моисея. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ездра

http://www.songofazrael.org/ Azrael in Jewish, Christian & Muslim Records
I will now compare this statement against what we know of Azra (Ezra):
1a) The Angel Azrael is forever writing.
1b) Azra was a professional scribe (always writing).
2a) What he writes are the names of those who are born.
2b) Azra's wrote the names of the men who were present and who they descended from (were born to).
3a) What he erases are the names of those who have died.
3b) Azra's wrote the names of the men who broke the laws of God. He mourned their loss and "made an end" with them. (their names were erased from the city register).
Other similarities between the Angel Azrael and the scribe Azra (Ezra):
The Angel Azrael is a Hebrew name that means: Help of God.
Azra (Ezra) is a Hebrew name that means: Help.
The Angel Azrael was in charge of the Laws of God.
Azra was the keeper and reader of the divine law.
The Angel Azrael's face gazes upon the Preserved Tablet.
Azra's work was based on the Laws of Moses (Stone Tablets).

это было отступление про сходство Азраила и Ездры, теперь продолжение ради чего начал (возможно, это уже было, но все же):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_of_hair
Sviatoslav I of Kiev was reported to have worn a scalp lock by Leo the Deacon, a Byzantine historian. Later Ukrainian Cossacks (Zaporozhians) sported scalplocks called oseledets or khokhol. In India this custom remains active but usually only amongst orthodox Hindus. See Sikha.
In Mark Twain's travel book The Innocents Abroad, he describes Moroccan men sporting scalp locks.<1>
Riffian (Berber) men of Morocco had the custom of shaving the head but leaving a single lock of hair on either the crown, left, or right side of the head, so that the angel Azrael is able "...to pull them up to heaven of the Last Day."<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riffian_people
Physical anthropology
Riffi Berbers are defined as Mediterranean.<1><2> While only a few tribes have moderate Alpinid and Nordic admixture, these tribes are even closer to Europeans than to Africans. This is supported by a scientific study done on them in the Rif showing that some of the Rif Berbers have blond hair and blue or green eyes, a percentage higher than that found in Italians, Spaniards, or Portuguese.<3><4>

http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/showthread.php?p=79434
примеры Riffian people:




A very blond youth from the Senhajan tribe of Ktama, the most isolated spot in northern Morocco. Facially he resembles a southern Swede; closely similar individuals have been observed in the Canary Islands. The dimensions of his head are small, however; he must be regarded as a mesocephalic, cranially reduced type similar to the Irishman on plate 9, Fig. 6.





это в дополнение к инфе о племени-народе калашах в Пакистане (считающих себя потомками воинов Александра Македонского) в главе 10.3. "Пегая Орда. Почему Пекин называется Пекином, а Пакистан - Пакистаном" (Пегая орда. История "Древнего" Китая. В/10)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikha#Similar_hairstyles
The belief that the śikhā "allows God to easily pull one to paradise" may in fact be an Islamic, or at least an Arabian superstition, as the following passages may illustrate:
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet (1606–1682) described a similar hairstyle worn by Persians in his book 'Travels in Persia':
"The Persians allow no part of their body hair except the upper lip, which they wear long and thick and turning downwards; as also a lock upon the crown of the head, by which they are made to believe their Prophet will at Resurrection lift them into paradise. Elsewhere their head is shaven or made incapable of hair by the oil dowae (daway) being thrice anointed. This had been made the mode of the Oriental people since the promulgation of the alcoran (Al Quran), introduced and first imposed by the Arabians."<14>
In 'Passages of Eastern Travel', Harper's magazine‎, 1856, p. 197, an American traveller wrote:
"All Arabs, men and boys, have their heads shaved, leaving only a scalp lock, said by some to be left in imitation of the Prophet, who wore his own thus; and by others said to be for the convenience of the angel who will pull them out of the graves when the day of rising shall come."<15>

таким образом, получается широкое распространение оселедцев-хохлов-чуприн, и оказывается, сам Пророк носил такой же?