{"product_id":"ghyat-al-akm-picatrix-erik-gray-9798279154296","title":"Gh\u0026#257;yat al-\u0026#7716;ak\u0026#299;m (Picatrix): A New Literal Translation from the Earliest Arabic Sources","description":"\u003ci\u003eGhāyat al-Ḥakīm\u003c\/i\u003e, known in the Latin world as \u003ci\u003ePicatrix\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of the most influential and misunderstood works of the medieval intellectual tradition. Composed in Arabic in the tenth century, it stands at the crossroads of philosophy, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, and the science of images, preserving a vast body of cosmological and operative knowledge inherited from the ancient world and systematized within the early Islamic scientific milieu. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by Abū Maslama Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Waḥshiyya al-Nabaṭī, the text presents a unified vision of the cosmos governed by proportion, correspondence, and lawful mediation between celestial and terrestrial orders. Far from superstition or fantasy, \u003ci\u003eGhāyat al-Ḥakīm\u003c\/i\u003e articulates a disciplined framework in which natural forces, times, materials, and forms interact according to intelligible principles. Its influence extended widely through later Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin traditions, shaping medieval astrology, talismanic practice, and Renaissance natural philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume offers a new, literate, and rigorously literal translation from the earliest Arabic sources, rendered with careful attention to language, structure, and technical vocabulary. Unlike previous editions that paraphrase, abridge, or interpret the text through later traditions, this translation allows \u003ci\u003eGhāyat al-Ḥakīm\u003c\/i\u003e to speak in its own voice, preserving its conceptual rigor and internal coherence without modern embellishment or simplification. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis translation also includes the Emerald Tablet (Arabic recension), rendered in a new literal translation from its earliest Arabic witnesses and presented as a foundational Hermetic statement whose cosmological principles closely parallel those articulated in \u003ci\u003eGhāyat al-Ḥakīm\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a medieval reinterpretation transmitted through later Spanish and then Latin intermediaries. It is a faithful, literal translation of the original Arabic text itself, returned to its earliest recoverable form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Gray,Abū Maslama Muḥammad Ibn I -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798279154296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Erik Gray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447246369023,"sku":"9798279154296","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd78726c-0ed0-4934-9861-9fd5ef9c7a22.jpg?v=1777229824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ghyat-al-akm-picatrix-erik-gray-9798279154296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}