Isbn: 9798254255239 - the sun of knowledge: the sacred science of ahmad al-buni — divine names, hidden letters, and the mystical wisdom of islam's greatest occult master (10 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the world were made of words, and you had simply forgotten how to listen?Eight hundred years ago a man in Cairo believed exactly that. He believed the letters of the alphabet were living things, that the names of God carried distinct powers a person could learn to draw on, and that the universe had a hidden grammar anyone patient enough could learn to read. He spent his life mapping it.His name was Ahmad al-Buni, and the book he wrote became the most widely copied Arabic esoteric manuscript in history. Healers carried it across the Sahara by camel. Sufi masters studied it in Cairo. Orthodox clerics condemned it as heresy and tried to stamp it out. Eight centuries later it is still in print, still sold in markets from Marrakesh to Jakarta, still consulted by people who suspect he was onto something.Yet for most readers outside the Islamic world, his name means nothing at all.The Sun of Knowledge is a narrative retelling of al-Buni's life, thought and long afterlife, written for readers who have never opened a book on Islamic mysticism. It moves from the Algerian coast where he was born to the Cairo where he worked, through the science of letters and the theology of the divine names, into the fierce arguments his work provoked and the extraordinary journey it made across continents. Every chapter closes with Reflections for the Modern Seeker, a short meditation connecting what you have just read to the life you are actually living.Understand why a thirteenth-century mystic's ideas about language still unsettle people who study meaning for a livingSee what eight centuries of practitioners have reported about sustained attention, and learn to hold that testimony honestly without swallowing it wholeFind a diagnostic for your own hardest days that is older, stranger and more precise than anything self-help has offered youRecover a way of reading that treats a page as somewhere to stand rather than something to get throughDiscover why the words you choose, when you speak to the person in front of you, may matter more than you have been treating them as matteringThis is a book for anyone who has ever felt that we are drowning in language while starving for meaning, and wondered whether it was always this way.It was not. Someone worked out something different, and wrote it down, and the book survived.Open the first page. The sun has been up for eight hundred years. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Eight centuries ago, a North African mystic discovered that reality itself is written in a language we have almost forgotten how to read. His name was Ahmad al-Buni. His masterwork - the Shams al-Ma'arif, the Sun of Knowledge - became the most widely copied Arabic esoteric manuscript in history. Healers in Nigeria carried it across the Sahara. Sufi masters in Cairo studied it in secret. Ottoman scholars built entire schools of mysticism upon it. Eight hundred years later, it is still in print. Yet for most Western readers, al-Buni's name is unknown. Until now. In The Sun of Knowledge, scholar Narin Hikma opens the doors of al-Buni's extraordinary world for the first time in English - revealing a complete, rigorous, and breathtaking science of the sacred: divine names, living letters, celestial mathematics, spiritual healing, and the Sufi path that underlies it all. Discover the mystical properties of the 99 Names of God and how each one carries a specific divine power accessible through focused practiceUnderstand the sacred mathematics of Islamic magic squares - and why al-Buni considered them windows into the structure of realityExplore the deep Sufi theology that transforms al-Buni's "occult" science into one of the most profound spiritual systems ever devisedTrace the astonishing journey of his ideas from medieval North Africa across continents and centuries to the present dayLearn what this ancient wisdom offers the modern seeker - and why it has never been more relevantThis is not a book about magic tricks. It is a book about meaning - about one of history's greatest minds wrestling with the deepest question a human being can ask: What is the universe made of, and how can I live in harmony with it? For readers of Rumi, Ibn Arabi, and the esoteric traditions of the world's great religions - this is the book you've been waiting for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…