Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• Kitab Mujarrabāt
  Kitab Mujarrabāt, aka Fath-al-malik al-majid, is a manuscript treatise of 36 chapters on healing magic, written by 18th century Egyptian legal scholar of the Shafi'i school, Al-Shaykh Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Dayrabī (1651-1738), who taught at al-Alzhar. The manuscript is incomplete, and is lacking the final pages.
• Kitab Shumūs al-Anwār wa Kunūz al-Asrār
  A lithograph copy of Kitab Shumūs al-Anwār wa Kunūz al-Asrār ['The book of the suns of lights and the treasures of secrets'], a treatise on charms and talismans) by Ibn al-Hajj Muhammed ibn Muhammed (d 1336), printed in 1868 by the Qastaliyah Press in Cairo, with later handwritten notations. The book contains thirty chapters and is dated 29 Al-Qa’da 1285 (AH) i.e. 1868 AD, and is complete in 186 pages. There are thirty chapters, covering topics such as plants, minerals, water distribution, earth, medicine, love, blessing, paper cutting and so on, as well as two chapters on Jinn activity and Jinn healing. The lithograph is in a leather binding stamped with the ownership label, ‘Ex Libris L.J. Lloyd’ - it belonged to Leslie John Lloyd (1907-1975), Librarian of the University College of the South West, later to become the University of Exeter, from 1946 until his retirement in 1972.
• Photograph with annotation: [a fragment of carved stone in the] "Museum of Baghdad, Iraq".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: [a fragment of carved stone in the] "Museum of Baghdad, Iraq". Carved stone, heavily weathered and cracked, mounted on wall, depicts image of figure with bow and arrow pointing at snarling animal.