Unlike the close-knit scholastic orders of New Europan sorcery, many Arabian wizards are forced to work in isolation by the vastness of the desert. Away from the cities, there are few chapter houses in Araby: like the Prosperians, the wandering religious mystics - the dervishes - see the open road as their home, as do the Bedouin poet-sorcerers, the Sha'irs. For those not of a religious persuasion, and whose motives are less than altruistic, the secretive Cult of the Knife provides a loose conclave that suits the Arabian sense of freedom. Not all members are evil, but they are all self-serving and lack any respect for those not of the Order. Their sigil is that of a dagger with a wavy blade. The Order has little intrinsic lore of its own, but individual members inevitably come to the Cult from another sorcerous lodge. Many of its members are already familiar with Sha'ir lore (which heavily influenced Burton's 'On the Raised Forces of Nature'), or that of the Diwan of the Golden Road, the Wielders of the Balance, the Brotherhood of Purity or (very rarely) the Sisterhood of Roxelana.
Most adepts of the cult know the binding Lore of Solomon. A very few have gained knowledge of an ancient spell Animate Object.