✍ Scribed by Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, and Farouk Yahya
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Transliteration, Style, and Dates
Chapter 1. Introduction (Saif and Leoni)
Part 1. Occult Theories: Inception and Reception
Chapter 2. The Three Divisions of Arabic Magic (Burnett)
Chapter 3. New Light on Early Arabic Awfāq Literature (Hallum)
Chapter 4. A Study of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b) (Saif)
Chapter 5. Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Sirr al-maktūm (Noble)
Chapter 6. Lettrism and History in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī’s Naẓm al-sulūk fī musāmarat al-mulūk (Gardiner)
Chapter 7. Kāshifī’s Asrār-i qāsimī: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife (Subtelny)
Part 2. Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action
Chapter 8. The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-Hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences (Coulon)
Chapter 9. Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemālpaşazāde’s (d. 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism (Melvin-Koushki)
Chapter 10. Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield (Ekhtiar and Parikh)
Chapter 11. Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAlī in Southeast Asia (Yahya)
Chapter 12. A Stamped Talisman (Leoni)
Chapter 13. Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s “New Turkey” (Gruber)
Chapter 14. Postscript: Cutting Ariadne’s Thread, or How to Think Otherwise in the Maze (Zadeh)
Index
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