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

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-47147-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and So

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 innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-modern times. Produced and used by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the case studies presented here include objects that differ in size, material, language and shape. What the articles share is an all-round, in-depth approach that helps the reader understand the complexity of the objects discussed and will improve one’s understanding of the role they played within pre-modern societies.

Contributors

Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Gideon Bohak, Ursula Hammed, Juan Campo, Jean-Charles Coulon, Venetia Porter, Marcela Garcia Probert, Anne Regourd, Yasmine al-Saleh, Karl Schaefer and Petra M. Sijpesteijn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

A. Garcia Probert, Marcela

M. Sijpesteijn, Petra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Kitab al-Mandal al-Sulaymani (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4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library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

Über Autor(innen)

Marcela A. Garcia Probert is a PhD-student and teacher at Leiden University. Her dissertation is entitled: Exploring the life of amulets in Palestine. From healing and protective remedies to the the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets. Marcela was the initiator of the conference that this volume is an outcome of.

Petra M. Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is the principal investigator of an international research project entitled "Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)", funded by the European Research Council.

Contributors

Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Gideon Bohak, Ursula Hammed, Juan Campo, Jean-Charles Coulon, Venetia Porter, Marcela Garcia Probert, Anne Regourd, Yasmine al-Saleh, Karl Schaefer and Petra M. Sijpesteijn.