| ISBN |
9004426965 (hardcover) |
| 9789004426962 (hardcover) |
| Meeting Name |
Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice (Conference) (2017 : Oxford, England) |
| Title |
Islamicate occult sciences in theory and practice / edited by Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Farouk Yahya. |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 703 pages ; illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Ancient Near East 140 |
| 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. |
| CB illustration: p. 637, fig. 14.1 (In 02, f. 125b). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Liana Saif and Francesca Leoni -- Part 1: Occult theories: inception and reception. The three divisions of Arabic magic / Charles Burnett -- New light on early Arabic Awfāq literature / Bink Hallum -- A study on the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ's epistle on magic, the longer version (52b) / Liana Saif -- Sabian astral magic as soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's al-Sirr al-maktūm / Michael Noble -- Lettrism and history in ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī's Naẓm al-sulūk fi musāmarat al-mulūk / Noah Gardiner -- Kāshifi'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. The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-hindiyya and medieval Islamic occult sciences / Jean-Charles Coulon -- 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 -- Power and piety: Islamic talismans on the battlefield / Maryam Ekhtiar and Rachel Parikh -- Calligrams of the lion of ʻAlī in southeast Asia / Farouk Yahya -- A stamped talisman / Francesca Leoni -- Bereket bargains: Islamic amulets in today's 'new Turkey' / Christiane Gruber -- Postscript: cutting Ariadne's thread, or how to think otherwise in the maze / Travis Zadeh. |
| Person as subject |
Ashmolean Museum -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02 |
| Islamic occultism -- Congresses |
| Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Saif, Liana editor |
| Leoni, Francesca 1974- editor |
| Melvin-Koushki, Matthew S. editor |
| Yahya, Farouk editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Ashmolean Museum |
| Series Added Entry |
Handbuch der Orientalistik ; Erste Abteilung ; Nahe und der Mittlere Osten |
