Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42696-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 140, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1322 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies:

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences 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.

Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Saif, Liana

Leoni, Francesca

Melvin-Koushki, Matthew

Yahya, Farouk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Awfaq Literature

Bink Hallum

4 A Study on the Ikhwan al-?afa?’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b)

Liana Saif

5 Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s al-Sirr al-maktum

Michael Noble

6 Lettrism and History in ?Abd al-Ra?man al-Bis?ami’s Na?m al-suluk fi musamarat al-muluk

Noah Gardiner

7 Kashifi’s Asrar-i qasimi: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife

Maria Subtelny

Part 2 Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action

8 The Kitab Sharasim al-hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences

Jean-Charles Coulon

9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemalpasazade’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 ?Ali 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

Über Autor(innen)

Liana Saif (Ph.D. University of London, 2012) is a research associate at the Warburg Institute (London). She is an intellectual historian specializing in medieval Islamicate occult sciences and Islamic esotericism. She also conducts research on the entanglement and exchange of esoteric and occult ideas and practices between the Latin-West and the Islamicate world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Francesca Leoni (Ph.D. Princeton, 2008) is Assistant Keeper and Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. She has published on wide-ranging topics, including Persian manuscript painting, eroticism and the occult in Islamicate visual arts.

Matthew Melvin-Koushki (Ph.D. Yale, 2012) is Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary focus on history of science, history of philosophy and history of the book.

Farouk Yahya (Ph.D. SOAS, University of London, 2013) is Research Associate at this university. He has published on Southeast Asian magic, divination and art, including Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts (Brill, 2016).