Shams Al — Maarif Al Kubra.pdf !free!

Legitimate scholars of religion, anthropologists, and historians of the Middle East seek the for critical analysis. They want to study al-Buni’s influence on later Western occultism (particularly the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley, who borrowed heavily from Islamic letter magic).

While traditionally attributed to Ahmad al-Buni (died c. 1225 CE), modern scholarship suggests a more complex history. The original work, known as Shams al-Ma’arif , was likely a shorter treatise on the mystical properties of the names of God, intended for a closed community of learned Sufis. Shams Al Maarif Al Kubra.pdf