Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context : Transmission, Efficacy and Collections /

Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context : Transmission, Efficacy and Collections /

In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an in...

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Other Authors: Probert, Marcela A. Garcia (Editor), Sijpesteijn, Petra M. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society ; 13.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Subjects:

Amulets > Africa, North.
Amulets > Middle East.
Talismans > Africa, North.
Talismans > Middle East.

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Call Number: GR600

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates
  • Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment /
  • Marcela Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • Part 1 Transmission
  • 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah /
  • Gideon Bohak
  • 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES  286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices /
  • Anne Regourd
  • 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition /
  • Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • Part 2 Efficacy
  • 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library /
  • Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali
  • 5 "This Blessed Place": The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo /
  • Juan E. Campo
  • 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams /
  • Yasmine Al-Saleh
  • 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets? /
  • Karl Schaefer
  • Part 3 Collecting and Collections
  • 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask /
  • Ursula Hammed
  • 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum /
  • Jean-Charles Coulon
  • 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets /
  • Marcela Garcia Probert
  • 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History /
  • Venetia Porter
  • Glossary
  • Index.