Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris].
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 2
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 3
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 4
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 5
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 6
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 7
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 8
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 9
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 10
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 11
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 12
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 13
Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris]. – Bild 14

Rare geomantic manual in a distinct Mashriqi recension

Salihi, Ibrahim ibn Shaban ibn Nafi' al-. Al-bahr azzakher wal falak al-dai'r fi ilm al-nabi attaher Idris [The vast ocean and the revolving celestial sphere in the knowledge of the pure Prophet Idris].

[Egypt or Syria, ca. 1800 / early 19th century CE].

4to (158 x 226 mm). 77, (1 blank) ff. Arabic manuscript on paper. Black naskh script arranged in 17 lines, with titles and important words picked out in red. With in-text diagrams of geomancy dot arrangements. Contemporary red leather with fore-edge flap, ruled in blind.

€ 6.500,00

A rare manual of geomancy, preserving a practical and textually rich witness to al-Salihi's occult work. This copy preserves an early 19th century Mashriqi witness to a bibliographically recorded text; it further survives in an Omani manuscript in the treasury of Sheikh Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Issa Al Harithi, Al-Qabil (MS 109), while a 15th-century Maghribi recension is offered by Inlibris, Vienna. Any manuscript of the text is of extreme rarity.

The treatise is devoted throughout to "Ilm al-raml", the "science of sand divination", and is arranged as a working handbook for performance and interpretation. It preserves a markedly practical character, with a variant arrangement of one chapter and additional instructions, including sections on food and on particular sand formations. These features give it strong value as an independent witness to the living transmission of the text. Like the best working books of the occult sciences, this manuscript provides the visual grammar of the discipline: geomantic dot figures and rubricated cues, guiding use across the page.

Manuals of divination circulated not as abstract speculative texts but as portable tools of calculation, consultation, and applied judgment across the Islamicate world. This manuscript embodies that tradition with particular force, uniting practical instruction in diagrams and an appealing material presence in a rare survival of the 'ilm al-raml.

Provenienz

From a 20th century Parisian private collection, kept in the family for generations and dispersed in 2022.

Zustand

Clean, sewing tight; an appealing survival.

Literatur

Jamil ibn al-Azm, Al-Sirr al-masun 'ala Kashf al-zunun (Beirut, 2004), col. 268, no. 836. Katib Chelebi, Lexicon bibliographicum, ed. Flügel (1850) V, p. 88, no. 10143 (note). A. Regourd, "Au sujet des sources manuscrites de l’ouvrage imprimé au Caire sous le titre d’ 'Al-fasl fi usul 'ilm al-raml d’Al-Zanatî'", Annales islamologiques 35 (2001), pp. 393-407. Idah al-Maknun I, 164.

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