[AL-DAYRABÎ’S MAGICAL PRACTICES / SECRET SCIENCES / DEMONOLOGY] Kitâb Mujarrabât al-allâmat al-Shaykh Ahmad al-Dayrabî al-musamma... [i.e., The Book of Tested Remedies by the eminent scholar Shaykh Ahmad al-Dayrabi, titled The Glorious...

AHMAD IBN 'UMAR AL-DAYRABÎ, (1651-1738).; ABÛ ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD IBN YUSUF IBN 'UMAR IBN SHUAYB AL-SANÛSÎ, (1435-1490).

Abdallah al-Nahârî, [Cairo], AH Safer 1288 [= May 1871 CE]. 

Complete title: [AL-DAYRABÎ’S MAGICAL PRACTICES / SECRET SCIENCES / DEMONOLOGY] كتاب مجربات العلامة الشيخ أحمد الديربي المسمّى بـفتح الملك المجيد لنفع العبيد بالتمام والكمال والحمد لله؛ وبهامشه كتاب مجرّبات الشيخ [محمد بن يوسف] السنوسي / Kitâb Mujarrabât al-allâmat al-Shaykh Ahmad al-Dayrabî al-musamma bi-Fath al-Mulk al-majîd li-naf' al-'abîd bi al-tamâm wa al-kamal wa al-hamd Allah; wa-bi-hâmishihi kitâb Mujarrabât al-Shaykh [Muhammad ibn Yûsuf] al-Sanûsî [i.e., The Book of Tested Remedies by the eminent scholar Shaykh Ahmad al-Dayrabi, titled The Glorious Sovereign's Victory for the Benefit of the Servants, in its complete and perfected form, praise be to God; with on its margin the Book of Tested Remedies by Shaykh [Muhammad ibn Yusuf] al-Sanusi].

Loosely inserted into a contemporary half-leather binding. Untrimmed pages. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. Full of printed marginal texts within a black frame. Written in black Naskh script. Occasional soiling on papers. Some edge flaws to the final leaf, not touching the text. 164 p., illustrations of secret sciences such as wafkh, ramil, etc. Marginal tear on the right upper corner of leaf (pp. 107-108), not affecting the text, occasionally faded and foxed pages, sporadically marginal notes by hand, chippings on extremities of the loosely inserted pages to a contemporary half leather binding, binding shows wear. Overall, a good copy.

Early Cairo edition of Al-Dayrabî's famous work on his magical practices. The book includes supplications, amulets, invocations, and astrological instructions for various purposes, such as healing illnesses, protection from harm, easing childbirth, or attracting blessings etc. The work is very important and popular about folk medicine and occult sciences (‘Ilm al-ḥikma, ṭibb rûḥânî, or ‘ulûm al-ghaybiyya), drawing from both Qur'anic verses and Prophetic traditions as spiritual remedies. This edition is accompanied by Al-Senusi’s renowned marginal commentary.

Almost all known editions of the book in the 19th century (except for two published in Lucknow in 1291 AH and in Mecca in 1316 AH) were printed in Cairo. This is the Third Cairo edition. (TDVIA).

Al-Dayrabi’s collection has been widely circulated in manuscript and print form throughout the Islamic world, particularly in Ottoman, Persian, North African, and South Asian contexts.

Al-Dayrâbî was Egyptian fiqh [i.e. legal] scholar of the Shafi'i school, who taught at al-Alzhar, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Sanûsî was a North African theologian, mystic and renowned exponent of the Ash'ari theology.

As of May 2025, we couldn’t trace any copies of this third edition in OCLC. However, see OCLC 978426431 for the second edition printed in AH 1287 [1870 CE] & OCLC 745283078 for the first edition in AH 1280 [1863 CE]. Note: “A treatise on the use of verses of the Qur'ân, pious formulae, the letters of the alphabet, etc., as charms and talismans. Accompanied on the margin by another work on the same subject, entitled al-Muḥalli bi-al-mujarrabaat, by al-Sanusi.”