Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 (Islamic History and Civilization)

Agius, Dionysius A. (EDT)/ Mallett, Alexander (EDT)/ Rider, Catherine (EDT)

Brill（2022/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 594 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004498938
• DDC分類 345.45850288

Full Description

In this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta's 1605 trial of the 'Moorish' slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition. It will be of interest to both students and researchers who study any of these subjects, and will help demonstrate the richness and potential of the documents in the Maltese archives.

With contributions by: Joan Abela, Dionisius A. Agius, Paul Auchterlonie, Jonathan Barry, Charles Burnett, Frans Ciappara, Pierre Lory, Alex Malett, Ian Netton, Catherine R. Rider, Liana Saif

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Figures

Abbreviations

Arabic Transliteration System

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Alex Mallett, Dionisius A. Agius and Catherine Rider

Part 1

1 The Trial of Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605: Transcription and Translation

 Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Part 2

2 The Trial of Sellem: A Microhistorical Commentary

 Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Part 3

3 Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur: A Muslim Magician in Catholic Malta

 Joan Abela

4 The Cognitive Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Malta: Communicating Information in a Cosmopolitan Society

 Dionisius A. Agius

5 The Maltese Inquisition: Expectations and Evidence in the Sellem Case

 Jonathan Barry

6 The Witch and the Judge: Sellem before the Roman Inquisition, 1605

 Frans Ciappara

7 An Anthropology of Confessional Practice Regarding Magic in Early Seventeenth-Century Malta: Liminality, Communitas, Exclusion

 Ian R. Netton

Part 4

8 Magic and Divination Lost in Translation: A Cairene in a Maltese Inquisition

 Liana Saif

9 Geomancy, Divination, and Islam

 Pierre Lory

10 Learned and Common Magic in the Trial of Sellem

 Catherine Rider

11 Measurement and Magic: Some Notes on the Texts on Measurement in the Inquisition Documents against Sellem the Moor

 Charles Burnett

12 Magic in Ottoman North Africa, 1570-1700, as seen through European Eyes

 Paul Auchterlonie

Part 5

13 Concluding Remarks

 Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius

Appendix 1: Evidence Presented to the Inquisition by Vittorio Cassar: Instructions for Mathematics and the Practise of Geomancy

 Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Appendix 2: Tabula Sybillum

 Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Index