Islamicate occult sciences in theory and practice / / edited by Liana Saif [and three others].

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Ancient Near East = Handbuch der Orientalistik, volume 140
• Author: Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice (Conference) Oxford, England),
• TeilnehmendeR: Saif, Liana,; Ashmolean Museum,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Ancient Near East ; v. 140.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations (chiefly color), map
• Notes: "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.

"Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occultism 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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.