One such text is the Karishma-ye Jafr of Humayun Mirza Lakhnavi (d. 1960, Karachi) 4/
This relatively short text brings together various modes of lettrism especially talismanic squares used for everything from everyday protection to more involved prescriptions 5/
An element of that is the theurgic and lettrist use of the divine names 6/
On #lettrism Check out the work of Matt Melvin Koushki at U South Carolina such as journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… 7/
And on #IbnTurka on whom Matt wrote his PhD middleeastmedievalists.com/wp-content/upl… 8/
As a practice often Jafr is especially associated with Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq 9/
Another work that he wrote was on gemology Karishma-ye qudrat
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