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Ahmad al-Buni was a mathematician and a mystic scholar born in Bona (modern-day Annaba, Algeria) during the Almohad Caliphate. He is a pivotal figure in the history of Islamic esotericism, known for bridging the gap between orthodox Sufi practice and the "Science of Letters" ( Ilm al-Huruf ).

In the pre-digital era, access was naturally limited by physical scarcity, literacy in classical Arabic, and initiation by a living master. However, since the late 1990s, scanned copies and OCR-generated PDFs of the Shams have circulated widely on file-sharing sites, archive.org, and Arabic-language Telegram channels. This paper investigates the implications of this shift. shams al maarif pdf