Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context : Transmission, Efficacy and Collections (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society)

Garcia Probert, Marcela (EDT)/ Sijpesteijn, Petra (EDT)

Brill（2022/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 306 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004471474

Full Description

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.

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4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library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