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''Sīmiyā’'' (from Arabic Simah سِمة which means sign
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: σημεία, "signs") also ''rūḥāniyya'', or ''‘ilm al-ḥikma'' (, lit. "spirituality" and "the epistemology of wisdom", respectively) is a doctrine found commonly within
Sufi Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
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occult The occult () is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysti ...
traditions that may be deduced upon the notion of "linking the superior natures with the inferior...", and broadly described as
theurgy Theurgy (; from the Greek θεουργία ), also known as divine magic, is one of two major branches of the magical arts, Pierre A. Riffard, ''Dictionnaire de l'ésotérisme'', Paris: Payot, 1983, 340. the other being practical magic or thau ...
.Eric Geoffroy, ''Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam'', World Wisdom, 2010 p. 21"Rūḥāniyya". Encyclopædia of Islam. New ed. This is confirmed further by al-Majrīṭī, who claims to reveal the techniques by which it is possible to convoke the ''rūḥāniyya'' of the celestial bodies. Theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, the preacher and writer al-Kāshifī, and the Sufi Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-'Arabī are amongst the most pre-eminent contributors. But al-Būnī, author of the two-volume '' Shams al-Ma‘ārif'', is as likely as not a considerable focal point for the craft. The 13th-century Hermetic thinker had transcribed a whole corpus of material (called the ‘Corpus Būnianum’), all of which was subsumed under the spiritual science, and a majority of his works are still used as prototypes for present-day magical practice and literature. The term ''sīmiyā’'' was the synonym of ''rūḥāniyya'', which meant 'spirituality'. This was to be contrasted with the more lesser conformed sorcery (''siḥr''), deemed forbidden in
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Alchemy and chemistry in Islam Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in general) by Science in medieval Islam, Muslim scholars in the medieval Islamic world. The ...
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Islamic astrology Astrology refers to the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world. In early Islamic history, astrology (''ʿilm al-nujūm'', ), was "by far" the most ...
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Picatrix ''Picatrix'' is the Latin name used today for a 400-page book of magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title ''Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm'' (), or ''Ghayat al-hakim wa-ahaqq al-natijatayn bi-altaqdim'' which most scholars assume was ...
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Societas Occulta Islamica
An academic society devoted to the study of the ''arcana'' and ''esoterica'' of the Islamicate Civilization Sufism Occultism (Islam) Mythological powers {{occult-stub