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almahu_9949702484002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004426979
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9789004426962
Series Statement:
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868 140
Content:
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 being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue.
Note:
"The present volume, which gathers some of the papers presented at a three-day international conference, 'Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice,' held at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford on January 6-8, 2017"--Introduction.
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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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004426962
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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