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  2. Category:Arabic grimoires - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Arabic grimoires" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Book of Wonders; K.

  3. Shams al-Ma'arif - Wikipedia

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    Shams al-Ma'arif or Shams al-Ma'arif wa Lata'if al-'Awarif [a] is a 13th-century grimoire centered on Arabic magic by Ahmad al-Buni. It is claimed to be a manual for achieving esoteric spirituality. The book is a patchwork of bits and pieces of Al-Buni's authentic works, and texts by other authors. [1]

  4. Picatrix - Wikipedia

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    Pages from a 14th century version of the manuscript. Picatrix is the Latin name used today for a 400-page book of magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm (Arabic: غاية الحكيم), or Ghayat al-hakim wa-ahaqq al-natijatayn bi-altaqdim [1] which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, [2] though an ...

  5. Category:Grimoires - Wikipedia

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  6. Necronomicon - Wikipedia

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    Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories. The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.

  7. Pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Sabaic is the best attested language in South Arabian inscriptions, named after the Kingdom of Saba, and is documented over a millennium. [4] In the linguistic history of this region, there are three main phases of the evolution of the language: Late Sabaic (10th–2nd centuries BC), Middle Sabaic (2nd century BC–mid-4th century AD), and Late Sabaic (mid-4th century AD–eve of Islam). [18]

  8. Grimoire - Wikipedia

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    This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.. A grimoire (/ ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /) (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) [citation needed] is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural ...

  9. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    Idries Shah finds the Abjad numerical equivalent of the Arabic title, alf layla wa layla, in the Arabic phrase ʾumm al-qiṣṣa, meaning 'mother of stories'. He goes on to state that many of the stories "are encoded Sufi teaching stories , descriptions of psychological processes, or enciphered lore of one kind or another".