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Islamic Occult Books
Islamic Occult Books
The emphasis is on Arabic, Persian, Oriental and Islamic manuscripts and books,
some, but not all, with a mystical / occult
Gnostic leaning.
You will not find direct religious instruction here, although you would be spoilt
for choice if you used an internet search
The eBooks are not found anywhere else in their complete form. It is most
unlikely that they will be found elsewhere in hard
copy either.
Current Catalogue:
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Ritter's critical Arabic text of this, the most important grimoire of magic ever
written! Born in Muslim Spain, from the pen
Arabic with German footnotes, facsimile PDF eBook, 13 Megabytes, 432 pages
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In this magnificent book, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni compares and contrasts different
systems of astrology. Beginning with
Highlights include: a comprehensive list of more than 150 Lots, various forms of
aspects and planetary relationships,
meteorological phenomena.
complete work, not just a re-publication of the part on Astrology. This book is
superior to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (written
in the 2nd century CE) and moreover, was unknown to mediæval European
astrologers.
English with parallel Arabic / Persian text, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF
eBook, 22 Megabytes, xviii, 666 pages
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and First Philosophy) over theology. The philosophy of Avicena, particularly that
part relating to metaphysics, owes much to
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* Dabistán-i Mazáhib *
The original 1843 English translation by Shea & Troyer. Includes huge amounts
of text omitted in later republications.
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This intense philosophical tract, which also surveys the major thinkers of the age
besides making its own hypothesis in the
form of a kind of "novel", was widely read, and came to inspire the British author
Daniel Defoe to write his Robinson
Crusoe.
Appended is a very rare work in French and Arabic called La Légende de Bent El
Khass / "The Legend of Bent el-Khass" (not by
ibn Tufayl).
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This translation of a mediæval Arabic manuscript recants the history of the Third
Crusade on Levantine soil, when an entire
continent descended upon one Caliphate which had scanty natural resources for
self-defence. From the comfort of your study
room, relive the copious atrocities of the Crusaders, who were rarely knights in
shining armour. Take relief in the chivalry
There are remarkable battle descriptions here, for example where outnumbered
Saracen armies won virtually unscathed, where
the superior genius of a teenager lifted a siege, where a mighty Eurasian Mamluk
with many notches on his belt got ambushed
by several wary Crusaders, but escaped when his summary executioner missed
and severed an assistant executioner's hand
instead. All this against the backdrop of Islamic camaraderie and generosity,
figureheaded by the leader of the Muslim
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 28 Megabytes, xx, 420 pages
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English translations of the "Debate of the Animals" found in the 22nd epistle.
The Kitab (“book”) or Rasa’il (“epistles”) of the Ikhwan as-Safa is a vast Arabic
encyclopædia of some 52 epistles. This
great treasure house of Sufic, Gnostic thought occupies a place in the first rank of
Arabic literature. Showing the
compatibility of the Islamic faith with other religions and intellectual traditions,
the authors of this encyclopædia drew
It is said that the members of the Ikhwan as-Safa, or “Brethren of Purity” (the
common rendering of their name) formed a
sort of Masonic Lodge long before Freemasonry existed. They lived in the Lower
Mesopotamian river port of Basra, debating on
appellation “Brethren of Purity” could also be the inspiration behind the “White
Brotherhood” of the New-Age movement.
Could the “king-bee, monarch of the flies” in the English translations of the
political debate between man and animals also
given here, have been the inspiration for William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”,
another political story?
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the Secrets of the Asma Al-Husna (the 99 “Excellent Names” of God), the
mysteries of the Huruf Muqatta’at of the Qur’an (the
enigmatic letters appearing at the start of some chapters), and it discusses the
influence exercised by the sun, moon and
The Shams al-Ma’arif rivals the Picatrix in importance. Most of the "time-tested"
books on sorcery in the Muslim world are
simplified excerpts from the Shams al-Ma’arif. Both the Picatrix and the Shams
al-Ma’arif were probably a model for H. P.
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* Asrar-i Qasimi *
Secrets of Qasim.
This is a Persian treatise on the 5 Occult Sciences, the initials of which form an
acrostic of "Kulluhu Sirr" ("All Of It Is
Mystery"):
Kimiya (alchemy)
Limiya (talismanic magic)
Himiya (spellcrafting / subjugation of souls)
Simiya (letter magic / producing visions)
Rimiya (conjuration, trickery)
The author was Husayn ibn Ali al-Kashifi (d. 910 AH / 1504 CE), also known as
al-Wa'iz al-Bayhaqi. The date of composition
The Asrar-i Qasimi (Farsi) and the Shams al-Ma’arif (Arabic) are archetypical
Occult Science literatures from the lands of
Islam. According to the colophon, this book is the first complete copy that is also
in the right order.
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This book will show you Shi’ism in a microcosmic version of the Islamic world –
Azerbaijan – where Caucasian, Persian, Arab
and Turkic cultures intermingle, all in the context of one of the most important
events in the political history of Islam –
Note the parallel between the Passion of Husain and the Hollywood blockbuster
The Last Samurai!
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 12 Megabytes, iv, 284 pages
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Published in 1896, this valuable reference work describes some 343 manuscripts
in the library of Cambridge University. This
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 39 Megabytes, xl, 471 pages
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Published in 1900, this valuable reference work gives brief descriptions of some
1,422 acquisitions made by Cambridge
University. The Hand-List was compiled by Edward Granville Browne (1862-
1926), an Orientalist and professor of Arabic at
Cambridge University, England. The MSS here described are for the most part in
Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu or
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 27 Megabytes, xvii, 440 pages
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Cambridge *
Published in 1922, this valuable reference work gives brief descriptions of some
1,577 acquisitions made since the previous
Hand-List was published. The MSS here described are for the most part in Arabic,
Persian, Turkish and Urdu or Hindustani,
with a few in Pushto, Punjabi, Eastern Turki, etc. The Malay MSS are mentioned
only under their class-marks, without title
or description. There was one more Browne catalogue after this, completed
posthumously by Reynold A. Nicholson.
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 16 Megabytes, xi, 348 pages
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This rare book - separate from the widely-available Gulistan and Bustan - is a
small volume of poetry embodying precepts
which would do no discredit to the philosophy of the 21st Century CE. Concise
and elegant, the work is most popular
which flows in easy cadence, and fixes the words of the poem on the mind. Hence
the lines are committed to memory to an
extent that is probably not surpassed by any work in the Persian language. Lines
from Sadi's poems are still commonly used
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King Abbad III, al-Mu'tamid 'ala Allah, was the 3rd and last ruler (reigned 1069-
1091 CE) of Seville, Spain. He counts as
one of the greatest Andalusian poets, and his blood is said to live on in the royal
houses of Europe, and elsewhere.
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sect or doctrine by offering these texts.
ineffable, in Fihi ma Fihi, the Mawlana discusses spirituality and the cultural
matters of his time in a much more clinical
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Abu al-Mughith Husayn Mansur al-Hallaj was born around 858 CE in Tur, Persia.
He was an anomaly even among Sufis. Many Sufi
masters felt that it was inappropriate to share mysticism with the uninitiated, yet
Hallaj openly did so. After years of
imprisonment, on 26th March, 922 CE, he was beheaded (some say crucified) by
the Abbasid Caliph for his ecstatic,
blasphemous utterances, for example "Ana al-Haq" ("I am the Truth", Truth being
one of the 99 Asma al-Husna). Apparently he
went to his execution dancing in his chains, totally cordial towards his death
sentence. Evidently, he was a stranger to
this world.
(Sufi dervishes were often called "Shah", and the stake was presumably used to
impale his head.) This Kitab at-Tawasin, or
letters at the beginning of the Qur'anic Sura 27, which are said to indicate Divine
Majesty and Power. The Tawasin includes
2 brief chapters devoted to a dialogue of Satan and God, where Satan refuses to
bow to Adam, although God asks him to do so.
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Azalism.
English, fully bookmarked, facsimile PDF eBook, 35 Megabytes, xxiv, 380 pages
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Persian literature.
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