Ensiklopedia Jimat

Survei Dunia atas Benda Bertuah yang Direproduksi Lengkap dari Sumber, dengan Hati Nurani Tauhid

Gather every talisman the literate world ever made — Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish, Greek, Islamic, Hermetic, Indic, Sinitic, Nusantaran, African, Norse — reproduce each faithfully from its public-domain source with the theology still attached, and the exhaustiveness itself disenchants: seen whole, the "forbidden secret" turns out to be a public, repetitive, cross-copied human habit, and the surest cure for wanting a charm is to see all ten thousand of them at once.

Amelia Febriany did not want to write this book, and says so. It is the exhaustive twin of her Shams al-Ma'arif reading: where that series withholds the working apparatus and reads the wish behind it, this one gathers the apparatus of the whole literate world — beginning with the taweez of Islam and widening to Babylon and Egypt, the Hebrew and late-antique books, the Western grimoires, and the Indic, Sinitic, Nusantaran, African, and Norse traditions — and reproduces each talisman faithfully from its public-domain source, with the theology and the shariah line still attached. Nothing is invented; every square, every letter-chain, every seal resolves to a cited original, and where no clean public-domain scan exists the entry is described, not fabricated. The argument is not that any of it works. The argument is tawhid, made by completeness: when the reader sees the Cairene and the Copt and the Kabbalist and the Javanese dukun and the Icelandic farmer all reach for the same moves with the same wish, the "secret power" reading collapses, and what remains is the archive of a very old human longing to make the sacred obey — and the exact seam, running through the reader's own hands, where remembering God tips over into trying to command Him.

Audiences:

• Peneliti dan pembaca sejarah gagasan / esoterisme perbandingan — The world's talismanic material is scattered across dozens of traditions, languages, and copyright walls, romanticized or ridiculed but rarely gathered and sourced in one trustworthy place.
• Seniman, ilustrator, dan pembuat (tato yantra/sak yant, kaligrafi, prop) yang butuh rujukan tersumber — Working from marketplace images and half-remembered internet sigils means reproducing garbled, unsourced, sometimes fabricated marks.
• Orang beriman yang gelisah soal batas antara ibadah dan sihir — The pull to treat the sacred as a lever is not a stranger to anyone, and it is easier to disown when you pretend it belongs to old foreign books.