Simiyya

"spirituality" and "the epistemology of wisdom", respectively) is a doctrine found commonly within Sufi-occult traditions that may be deduced upon the notion of "linking the superior natures with the inferior...", and broadly described as theurgy.

[1][2] This is confirmed further by al-Majrīṭī, who claims to reveal the techniques by which it is possible to convoke the rūḥāniyya of the celestial bodies.

[2] Theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, the preacher and writer al-Kāshifī, and the Sufi Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-'Arabī are amongst the most pre-eminent contributors.

But al-Būnī, author of the two-volume Shams al-Ma‘ārif, is as likely as not a considerable focal point for the craft.

This was to be contrasted with the more lesser conformed sorcery (siḥr), deemed forbidden in Islam.

Table of associations between letters, the mansions of the moon, the constellations of the standard Zodiac , and the seasons, from the " Shams al-Ma'ārif ".