Glossary

Abjad

The letter-numeral system in which each Arabic letter carries a fixed numerical value, allowing any written name to be read as a number. In the registered havas record the abjad value governs the spoken register — the count of repetitions — while writing itself is confined to letters.

Used in: Abundance × havas — Wahhāb 14, al-Razzāq 23 (KT p.106; IA p.271).

Wafq

A number square arranged so that rows, columns, and often diagonals share a single sum. In the registered record, wafq preparation is the one context where incense appears, its choice keyed to the square's subject and the person's star.

Used in: Abundance × havas (IA p.199).

Havas

The literature concerned with the properties of divine names, letters, and numbers, and the conditions — material, temporal, personal — under which writing them is held to matter. The tradition page gives the fuller treatment.

See: The Islamic havas tradition.

Ocakçılık

In the registered record of Turkic folk practice, the hearth-lineage method of preparing bound written objects. Its signature is the ensemble: paper, ink, casing, date, and hour weighed together, with the casing itself counted among the operative elements.

Used in: Abundance × Turkic folk practice (TB p.94).

Planetary hours

The division of day and night into hours governed in turn by the seven classical planets. The registered havas record permits writing in four — Moon, Jupiter, Sun, Venus — and excludes the rest, making time a condition of validity rather than a preference.

Used in: Abundance × havas (KT p.106).

Sigla

The short letter-codes by which a critical apparatus names its witnesses. This archive assigns a siglum to every registered source — KT, IA, TB, KS — so that every marginal citation resolves to a public source record.