Step into the hidden domain of ‘ālam al-ghayb to discover a world where plants are far more than passive greenery, operating instead as potent dynamic anchors for plant spirits and celestial forces. Thislecture unravels the mysterious mechanics of ritual transference within Islamic occultism, tracing a journey from the grand libraries of medieval Baghdad to the esoteric Mamluk grimoires of Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī and the practical magical manuals of al-Dayrabī. You will uncover glowing alchemical herbs that mandate absolute silence and ritual purity to lock away their spirit agency, witness palm branches bound by divine oaths to act as living proxies that absorb human disease and wither away in abandoned graves, and encounter legendary marvels like the haunting, human-bearing Wāqwāq tree.