Apparently, Bulaq’s head of investigations stated that the cause of death was unclear. His face is said to have been found horrifically contorted. Poster of the film “He Returns for Revenge” Al-Ḥusaynī: “Jinn killed the astrologer"Īl-Falakī al-Ḥusaynī is believed to have been killed in 2003 at the age of 58 by a jinn in his home in Faysal, one of the neighbourhoods of Giza in Cairo. He invoked a jinn, resulting in weird happenings on the set and to the actors. Legend goes that the Egyptian director Yasīn Ismāʿīl Yāsīn asked al-Ḥusaynī to play the role of a spiritual healer in the 1988 film, “He Returns for Revenge”. This de-esotericisation of al-Būnī is encapsulated best in the popular, controversial, and equally hazardous grimoires penned by the enigmatic 20 th-century al-Sayyid al-Ḥusaynī al-Falakī and ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Ṭūkhī-both of whom clearly influenced by al-Būnian magic, reproducing and simplifying a lot of the material found in Shams al-maʿārif.Īl-Ḥusaynī al-Falakī was known as astrologer and magician to celebrities. The science of letters was often reduced to techniques and lists of powerful correspondences between elementary qualities, days, hours, planets, stones, angels, jinn, letters, and divine names. Of huge consequence to the formation of al-Būnī’s reputation is the fact that outsider perspectives on the science of letters and al-Būnī himself strip his thought of its Sufi cosmological frameworks. 1406) considered his lettrist magic to be forbidden sorcery. 1328) saw al-Būnī as a deluded devil worshipper, and the historian Ibn Khaldūn (d. (formal permission to transmit a text) for several works including Shams al-maʿārif “about whose authorship I asked every man”. ![]() 1632), we find a poem by the Andalusian ʿUmar al-Zajjāl addressing his shaykh, asking to be given the ij ā za (The Scent of Perfume) by the biographer al-Maqarrī (d. Early on, Shams al-maʿārif was known to be hard to obtain. Throughout history, a number of authors have expressed circumspection regarding the legitimacy of al-Būnī’s practices and the attribution of Shams al-maʿārif to him. ![]() However, today’s fame of al-Būnī rests on the popular printed editions of Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā, which are in fact a compilation of al-Būnian-type occult practices produced in the seventeenth century possibly by a later generation of disciples. By the fourteenth century, his works had become better known outside these circles and from there grew in popularity. Recent research has shown that the circulation and influence of al-Būnī’s original works were first restricted to closed Sufi communities. Shams al-maʿārif, 1985 (courtesy of Liana Saif)Ĭirculation and Reception of al-Būnī’s Work Another edition was published in 1985 by al-Maktaba al-Shaʿbiyya in Lebanon. People say that the earliest printed – now lost – edition was published by the University of al-Azhar in 1900. Rather, it was perceived as esoteric knowledge received by God’s favour through revelations to those who achieve a heightened spiritual state.Īrabic occulture gives an apocryphal history of Shams al-maʿārif: 600 years ago, in the fifteenth century, according to this history, a single manuscript, written in deer blood on hide, became publicly accessible and is now in the British Library. This science was not marginal in medieval and early modern Islamicate societies, nor is there any evidence of formal censorship of it. Consummate knowledge of letters and divine names imparts the ability to mobilise their correspondences in the celestial and terrestrial realms and achieve magical and miraculous effects. Advertisement for “The Accursed Book": Buy Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā hereĪl-Būnī indeed wrote several treatises on the occult science of letters and divine names ( ʿ ilm al-ḥurūf wa al-asm āʾ), which correlates the letters of the Arabic alphabet with the hierarchical and emanative structure of the universe as decreed by God. In the West, his book is gaining increasing attention from academics, enthusiasts, and practitioners. ![]() Nowadays, he is known as an infamous arch-sorcerer. As a Sufi, he was known as a worker of miracles whose prayers were always answered. Evidence suggests he was North African and flourished in Cairo. The work is attributed to Aḥmad al-Būnī (d. On the Arabic internet and in various printed magazines, there is one word prominently associated with Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā ( The Sun of Knowledge, Larger Version): khaṭar or danger.
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