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Ahmad al-Buni

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Dietrich, A., “al-Būnī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs, p. 149
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Martin van Bruinessen, "Global and local in Indonesian Islam", Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto) vol. 37, no.2 (1999), 46-63
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using a simple bordering technique, but he may not have discovered the method himself. Al-Buni wrote about
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B. G. Martin, Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.149
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Mapping the Boundaries between Magic. The Names of God in the Writings of Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni
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Pages from Al-Buni's Treatise on the Magical Uses of the Ninety-nine Names of God
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and constructed, for example, 4 x 4 Latin squares using letters from one of the
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and learned from many eminent Sufi masters of his time. A contemporary of
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The arts of Islam : treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili collection
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Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra, a manuscript copy, beginning of 17th century
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Muḥyi al-Din Abu al-Abbas Aḥmad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Qurashi al-Sufi
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Mac Eoin, D.M. (1985). "Nineteenth-century Babi Talismans".
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Treatise on the Magical Uses of the Ninety-nine Names of God
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Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism
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His work is said to have influenced the Hurufis and the
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Instead occult (sorcery), this kind of magic was called
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Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra - شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
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Historia Religionum, Volume 2 Religions of the Present
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Index


a series
Hermeticism
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermetic writings
Liber Hermetis (astrological)
Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus
Corpus Hermeticum
Poimandres
Asclepius
Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Korē kosmou
Cyranides
The Book of the Secrets of the Stars
The Secret of Creation
Emerald Tablet
Kitāb al-Isṭamākhīs
Liber Hermetis de alchemia
Zosimos of Panopolis
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
Ibn Umayl
Maslama al-Qurṭubī
Aḥmad al-Būnī
Marsilio Ficino
Lodovico Lazzarelli
Giovanni da Correggio
Pico della Mirandola

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