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كتاب شموس الانوار وكنوز الاسرار / تأليف ابن الحاج احمد الكبير التلساني قدس سره
Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār / taʼlīf Ibn al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī qaddasa sirrah.
1800-1899
Treatise of uncertain authorship in thirty chapters (bāb), on ʻilm al-ḥurūf and other occult sciences, with charts of talismans. See M. Ullmann, Die Geheim-..., p. 392, n. 2. In this copy, the text is divided in two parts. The text is followed on fol. 67b-68b by several fāʼidah by the same hand, and by a short text on the 22 mansūkhāt as transmitted from the Prophet Muḥammad, with zoological metaphors, on fol. 69a-b (thicker paper).
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- Publisher
- [ 18--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Divination—Religious aspects—Islam—14th century
- Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
- Talismans—Islamic empire—14th century
- Islamic magic—14th century
- Occultism—Islamic Empire—14th century
- Animals—Symbolic aspects—Islam
- Animals—Religious aspects—Islam
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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