Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice /

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice /

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occultism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently...

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Other Authors: Saif, Liana (Editor), Leoni, Francesca (Editor), Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (Editor), Yahya, Farouk (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 140.

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slamic occultism > Congresses.
Occultism > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses.
Islamic occultism > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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Call Number: BF1404

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Transliteration, Style, and Dates
  • 1 Introduction
  • Liana Saif and Francesca Leoni
  • Part 1 Occult Theories: Inception and Reception
  • 2 The Three Divisions of Arabic Magic
  • Charles Burnett
  • 3 New Light on Early Arabic Awfāq Literature
  • Bink Hallum
  • 4 A Study on the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ's Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b)
  • Liana Saif
  • 5 Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's al-Sirr al-maktūm
  • Michael Noble
  • 6 Lettrism and History in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī's Naẓm al-sulūk fī musāmarat al-mulūk
  • Noah Gardiner
  • 7 Kāshifī's Asrār-i qāsimī : A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife
  • Maria Subtelny
  • Part 2 Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action
  • 8 The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences
  • Jean-Charles Coulon
  • 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemālpaşazāde's (d. 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki
  • 10 Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield
  • Maryam Ekhtiar and Rachel Parikh
  • 11 Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAlī in Southeast Asia
  • Farouk Yahya
  • 12 A Stamped Talisman
  • Francesca Leoni
  • 13 Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today's "New Turkey"
  • Christiane Gruber
  • 14 Postscript: Cutting Ariadne's Thread, or How to Think Otherwise in the Maze
  • Travis Zadeh
  • Index.