Kitāb al-nawāmīs
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title:
Kitāb al-nawāmīs
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The Kitāb al-nawāmīs is an Arabic book of magic written in the late ninth century in a Ṣābian milieu. It falsely claims to be a work of Plato. The complete Arabic text does not survive, but a complete Latin translation of the twelfth century does, going under the title Liber vaccae or the Book of the Cow. The work is divided into two books of 45 and 40 chapters, respectively. Each chapter contains a magical experiment or recipe, including for creating rational animals or hybrids, creating phenom
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Arabic book of magic
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date created:
2024-05-12T03:57:07Z
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2024-09-11T00:56:12Z
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