Th is is a thes is on Arsi-Arabic literanlre with spec ific refe rence to Shaykh Muhammad'amanrnHaJaga and his manuscr ipt on 'awlliq or numerology . The manllscript was written in Arabic inrn1383 A.H. ( 1956 AD.) under the title MifiiII! al-MighliIq SarI! Sullflll! al-Mar:hl Ii 11m :/1-rn':/lIlliq , .to SI .1, .i .1 .. II eL r ,;;. .).Ujl rW. "The Ke to the Lock: .-n Elaburatlon 01' thern,'-' J r---...;>.....,,~ ..... --' '-' '-rnLadder of rscens ion in the Science uf 'fllVlliq"rnThe thes is is divid ed into fi ve chapters. The first is an introduction where I state the problem,rnre view related literature, outline the historical background and hi ghlight the research area.rnI;umerology is just one small part of the broader field of occultism, and is intertwined withrnother branches of occultism (e.g. astrology, geomancy etc. ). Hence, in the second chaptcr. Irngive an in troduction to oeculr- ism ,lIld issues relilled thereto: li rst a general Introduction tornocc ulti sm, fo llowed by an overview or ArabicÂ· lslamic occult traditions and finall y louking inturnEthiopian occul tism.rnChapter three provides a biography 0[' Shaykh M uhammad'aman Haclaga (1873-1959 A.D)rnr fter the ea rly tragic death of his father and elder bro ther he lived alone wi th his motherrnamong a tribe other than his fathe r's. This sense of suc ial iso lation developed in him an attitudernof Independe nce and advocacy for disadva ntaged groups and was to ha ve great Impact on hisrnpersonality he was a distinguished scholar and soci,li figure.rnIt is an in teresting to find an original work on occult traciiti un by an EthiopiCin >c hoLlr.rndescri be and examine th is worK in the fo urth chapter. According to iniormallis. it is the onlyrn'ork of its kind by an Arsi schola r. Shaykh fvluhammad 'Jman followed the conventionalrnpract ice 0 1' Muslil11 schola rs bv prl1tiucing his work in thc lorm of a POCI11 anti thcn Ti ting anrnauthoritati'c coml11entary on it. I prcscl1l excerpts frol11 Ihc poe III ,Inti thc COI11I11