Del 13 - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context

Transmission, Efficacy and Collections

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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 are: 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-04-28
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt621 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLeiden Studies in Islam and Society
Antal sidor306
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004471474

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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.ContributorsHazem 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.

AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsNotes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and DatesIntroduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their EnvironmentMarcela Garcia Probert and Petra M. SijpesteijnPart 1 Transmission1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo GenizahGideon Bohak2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES 286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in PracticesAnne Regourd3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living TraditionPetra M. SijpesteijnPart 2 Efficacy4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National LibraryHazem Hussein Abbas Ali5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman CairoJuan E. Campo6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and DiagramsYasmine Al-Saleh7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets?Karl SchaeferPart 3 Collecting and Collections8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to AskUrsula Hammed9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus BunianumJean-Charles Coulon10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian AmuletsMarcela Garcia Probert11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a HistoryVenetia PorterGlossaryIndex