Amulets and talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in context : transmission, efficacy and collections / edited by Marcela A. Garcia Probert, Petra M. Sijpesteijn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia Probert, Marcela A., editor.

Sijpesteijn, Petra, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; v. 13.

Leiden studies in Islam and society, 2210-8920 ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amulets--Middle East.

Amulets.

Amulets--Africa, North.

Talismans--Middle East.

Talismans.

Talismans--Africa, North.

Middle East.

North Africa.

Physical Description:

xi, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Transmission

1. Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak

2. A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitab al-Mandal al-Sulaymani (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

pt. 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 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library / Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali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 R. Schaefer

pt. 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 A. Garcia Probert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9004471472

9789004471474

OCLC:

1291877818

Access Restriction:

Open access version available.