Arab Occult Literature and the real horror of 1001 Nights

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There are a number of important works within the Arabic and Persian literary tradition that delves into the fictional and non fictional realms of the occult. From magic, monsters and the djinn, to abstract concepts of time and space, one of these books includes 1001 Arabian Nights. It is both a compendium of demonology and cosmic horrors, featuring anomalies like the Ifrit and the Nasnas monster, and the DNA for Aleister Crowley’s occult cult “The Gnostic Mass of the Ordo Templi Orientis.”

Part 2 of this video is on Optimistic Arab's Channel as part of his series on Edward Said's Orientalism https://youtu.be/NoNaFZhVqkI

Voiceover by Amjad Abdelhamid
Edited by Abdullah Yahya
Executive Producers Abdullah Yahya and Ahmed AlMatrooshi

Further Reading
The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition) https://amzn.to/3fx70RO

Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World https://amzn.to/2ShTCJ8

I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (Two Volumes) https://amzn.to/3wtPXqq

Edward Said: Orientalism https://amzn.to/3u4ZRNO

Related Episodes:
The Akhbar Al Zaman Prophecy, the Original Necronomicon https://youtu.be/stGzZFciwcg

Magic, Monsters and the Search for the Real Necronomicon https://youtu.be/TuesIw-OZA4

Sufism and Could Creatures Like Lovecraft's Elder Gods Exist https://youtu.be/4r5OgLFuykM

Thumbnail:
Yuuki Morita "Thinking Man"

Sources

MADMADISONPLANTIER: In the Air Blog: Nasnas, النَّسْنَاس‎
Hadith: Sahih alBukhari
Edward Said: Orientalism
Roy Vilozny: Between Myth-Making and Shiite Exegesis
Viguera, María, Images of Europe in Medieval Arabic Texts
The Kitab al Kanuz
كتاب شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
Zakariya al-Qazwini عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات
"Walk Like an Egyptian: Egypt as Authority in Aleister Crowley's Reception of The Book of the Law". The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies.
A Life Of Aleister Crowley: Do What Thou Wilt
Richard Francis Burton: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Images

Niko Boiko, Nasnas Concept Art
Astrum Argenteum

Music by

Scott Buckley
http://SCottbuckley.com.au

Vadim Krakhmal
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHoK7jf5f9bX-8AUTE-_y3A/about

Chapters:

0:00 Preview: The Nasnas Djinn
1:16 A list of Arab and Middle Eastern Occult Books
3:37 The history of 1001 Arabian Nights
4:55 The Ifrit and the Nasnas Explained
9:06 Aleister Crowley, HP Lovecraft magic and Orientalism

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