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§ 857. Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Ibn Waḥs̲h̲īyah, the author, or alleged author, of various works on occult sciences, flourished in the third/ninth century (see Ency. Isl. new ed. under Ibn Waḥs̲h̲īya, Brockelmann i p. 242, Sptbd. i p. 430).

k. Hayākil u tamāt̲h̲īl, on talismans: Bombay 1312/1894° (32 pp.).

§ 858. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusain b. ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā died in 428/ 1037. (see pl. ii § 4).

Kunūz al-muʿazzimīn (corruptly [?] Kunūz al-mug̲h̲ramīn), is concerned with incantations and talismans. See Ḥ. K̲h̲. v p. 259, where the work, presumably in Arabic (cf. Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 828 (106)), is described as in seven faṣls.

mss. (in Persian, presumably translations): Berlin 303 (6) (beg. Sh. u sp. mar ān K̲h̲udāʾī-rā kih Āfrīdgār i ṭabāʾiʿ u arkān ast [virtually the same beginning as that of Sakkākī’s Jāmiʿ al-task̲h̲īr, Berlin 303 (10), Bodleian 1561 (4)]. In eleven faṣls), Fātiḥ 5371 (3), Bodleian iii 2749 (5) (beg. Ḥ. u sp. u st. mar k̲h̲. rā … a. b. c̲h̲. g. kih c̲h̲ūn jamāʿatī az muḥibbān. Divided according to the preface into qauls and faṣls, of which this ms. contains Qaul i in twelve faṣls).

§ 859. Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn M. b. ʿUmar al-Rāzī died in 606/1209 (see pl. ii §§ 87, 589, 805).

al-Sirr al-maktūm fī muk̲h̲āṭabat al-nujūm: on talismans, etc.: see pl. ii § 87, but the work would be more appropriately placed here.

§ 860. Appendix

(1)

Aʿmāl i k̲h̲ātam i Sulaimān: Āṣafīyah ii P. 1692 no. 196.

(2)

Asāṭīr al-awwalīn, on talismans consisting of numbers and geometrical figures, attributed to Ḥakīm Āṣaf b. Barak̲h̲yā¹ and ostensibly translated from Arabic into Persian, with a preface, by M. b. Saʿd (Ibn al-Sāwajī): Bombay 1310/1892° (Chitra Prabha Pr. 96 pp.).

(3)

¶ Jawāhir al-maknūn, on talismans consisting of letters of the alphabet, ascribed to Āṣaf (cf. Asāṭīr al-awwalīn above): D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 1319 (Jawāhir maknūnah), Bombay 1312/1894° (32 pp.).

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Maqṣūd al-ʿās̲h̲iqīn, by S̲h̲. Dāwud b. Ṣiddīqī [sic?]: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1694 nos. 275 (ah 1278/1861–2), 300, Rehatsek p. 137 no. 40 (?) (M. al-ʿā., author not mentioned by Rehatsek).

(5)

Risālah dar ruqā u nairanj u ṭilasmāt (beg. Bi-dān … kih aʿmāl i ruqā u nairanj u ṭilasmāt rā s̲h̲arṭī c̲h̲and az lawāzim-ast): Bodleian iii 2750 (2) (circ. ad 1768).

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