Overview

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.

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Author:   Marcela A. Garcia Probert ,  Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9789004471474

ISBN 10:   9004471472
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   28 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (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3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition  Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 2 Efficacy 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library  Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo 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

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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. 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."

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