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Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī was a rhetorician and court magician born in Khwarazm in 1160 CE (555 H). This volume contains editions and translations of the second and third treatises of his sorcerer’s handbook, Kitāb al-Shāmil wa-baḥr al-kāmil (The Book of the Complete and Sea of the Perfect). The second treatise of this grimoire describes Solomonic rituals using magic circles to contact and subjugate the jinn and the children of Satan. The third treatise contains rituals using goblets and young servants who are used as conduits for contacting the jinn, as well as exorcism treatments for magically caused illness.
Price: $183.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004540941
Format: Hardcover
Emily Selove (PhD 2012, UCLA) is an Associate Professor of Medieval Arabic Literature at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on magic and the trickster figure in the medieval Middle East.
Luca Patrizi (PhD 2012 Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”/Aix-Marseille Universitè) teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. His interests focus on theological and ethical issues in Islam and the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.
Luca Patrizi (PhD 2012 Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”/Aix-Marseille Universitè) teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Turin. His interests focus on theological and ethical issues in Islam and the doctrines and practices of Islamic esotericism.