Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

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Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, Matthew S. Melvin-Koushki, Farouk Yahya
Brill, 2021 - Philosophy - 703 pages
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 -- 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.

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