: Ensure the title page attributes the work to Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī . The book is traditionally comprised of four primary treatises on the sciences of letters ( ʿilm al-ḥurūf ), spiritual divisions ( aqsām ), and invocations ( daʿawāt ).
Manba' Ushul al-Hikma (Source of the Essentials of Wisdom) is a classic Arabic treatise on the occult sciences, esotericism, and spiritual healing. It is attributed to the 13th-century Sufi scholar Ahmad al-Buni , who is also the author of the famous Shams al-Ma'arif manba ushul al hikmah pdf verified