The Radiant Jewels for Summoning the Kings of Jinn at the Right Time and Hour (al-Jawahir al-Lamma'a): An Arabic Grimoire of Planetary Hours and Jinn ... Islamicate Occult Manuscripts in Translation)

The Radiant Jewels (al-Jawahir al-Lamma'a) is an Arabic grimoire of jinn summoning, planetary hours and magic squares, in its first English edition, for readers of Islamic magic, astrology and the history of ritual magic. Attributed to Ali Abu Hayy Allah al-Marzuqi (c. 15th century), it teaches the science of letters, the construction of planetary magic squares and the secrets of the divine names, then gives Qur'anic compositions and the oaths and adjurations for summoning spirits, among them the seven kings of the jinn, each of whom the book ties to a day of the week and a planet. What is inside The planetary hours: twelve hours of the day and twelve of the night, the Chaldean order of the planets, a table of the planet ruling each of the twelve hours on every day of the week, and when to work by the phase of the Moon Planetary correspondences and incense: the day and night incense of each planet, incenses of attraction and repulsion, and how to prepare and burn them Planetary magic squares from the 3x3 square of Saturn to the ninth square, of the Moon, with the constant sum of each, the step-by-step method for odd-numbered squares, when to write each one and what each is used for The science of letters: abjad values, the elemental nature of each letter, composing an adjuration and a seal from a name, and name calculations for compatibility A table of the Beautiful Names of God with their numerical values, and tables linking divine names, angels and spirits to the planets The summoning of the jinn kings: the comprehensive invocation, the oath attributed to the Prophet Sulayman, how to address a king when he appears, the binding covenant and its renewal, the sealing that must close every operation, and the dismissal of the spirits A table of the days naming the spirit and direction of each: Shamhurash (Sunday and Thursday), Murra, al-Ahmar, Barqan, Zawba'a and Maymun The operations of each day of the week, with the number of recitations of the divine names and the color of garment for each Invocations for the stations of the Moon as the book names them (Nobility, Spirit, Knowledge, Sustenance, the Throne and others), each with its number of recitations, and compositions on the Verse of the Throne, Surat al-Ikhlas and Surat al-A'la Talismans and operations for protection, healing, marriage and reconciliation, the removal of jinn possession, the breaking of sorcery, and scrying in a mirror or bowl of water The conditions of the art: sincerity, ritual purity, diet, the forty-day retreat and the ethics of the practitioner About this translation Invocations, adjurations and Qur'anic verses are given in English, in transliteration and in the original Arabic script Barbarous names are transliterated exactly as written and shown with the Arabic, never translated Talismanic seals, magic squares and diagrams are reproduced as images from the source manuscript Planetary hours, incenses, letter values and divine names are set out as tables Volume 5 of the series Arabic Islamicate Occult Manuscripts in Translation.