Sources of his knowledge Īhmad al-Buni also left a list of other titles that he wrote. ![]() His works on traditional healing remains a point of reference among Yoruba Muslim healers in Nigeria and other areas of the Muslim world. Al-Buni wrote about Latin squares and constructed, for example, 4 x 4 Latin squares using letters from one of the 99 names of Allah. 1200, Ahmad al-Buni showed how to construct magic squares using a simple bordering technique, but he may not have discovered the method himself. The book remains the seminal work on Theurgy and esoteric arts to this day. Most of the so-called mujarrabât ('time-tested methods') books on sorcery in the Muslim world are simplified excerpts from the Shams al-ma`ârif. Instead of sihr (Sorcery), this kind of magic was called Ilm al-Hikmah (Knowledge of the Wisdom), Ilm al-simiyah (Study of the Divine Names) and Ruhaniyat (Spirituality). ![]() ![]() Table of associations between letters, the mansions of the moon, the constellations of the standard zodiac, and the seasons by Al-Buni
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