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Ottomans and the supernatural : nature and the limits of knowledge in the early modern Ottoman Empire / Marinos Sariyannis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sariyannis, Marinos, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic occultism--History--To 1500.
- Islamic occultism.
- Supernatural--History--To 1500.
- Supernatural.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (610 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- A comprehensive exploration of Ottoman-era magic and occult sciences that employs a unique methodology involving close readings of a very wide range of textual sources.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Ottomans and the Supernatural : Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Nature, Supernatural, and Preternatural
- Magic, Occultism, and Science
- Looking for Ottoman Notions
- Sources and Structure of the Book
- PART I: The Supernatural Field
- 1: Nature within the Supernatural
- The Mechanics of the Material and Spiritual World
- Creation of the World, Multiple Worlds
- Astral Influences
- Lettrism
- Man, Angels, and Jinn
- Angelology
- The Jinn
- 2: Breaking the Order of Things
- Saints, Prophets, and Sheikhs: Miracles and Their Limitations
- Travels of the Soul: Death, Dreams, and Visions
- Realms and Levels of Existence
- The Origin of Dreams
- Spirits and Souls
- The Dead and the Living
- Part II: Establishing Human Control
- 3: Occult Sciences in Ottoman Knowledge
- Occult Sciences and Their Epistemology
- Terminology
- Encyclopedias
- Rationale of Occultism
- Polemics against Occult Sciences
- Persecutions
- 4: Occult Technologies in Practice
- Magic
- Sorcerers and Scholars
- Astrology and Other Forms of Divination
- Astrology
- Dream Interpretation
- Arithmology and cefr
- Alchemy
- Part III: The Preternatural Field And Its Demise
- 5: Understanding the Marvellous
- Marvels of the Sublunary World
- Properties of Natural Things
- Knowledge of the Occult
- Experience and Experiment
- Hermes, Idris, and Inherited Gnosis
- Wisdom for the Few
- 6: Nature Enchanted and Disenchanted
- Natural Sciences Expanding?
- Materialist Tendencies
- Enlightenment and Disenchantment, the Ottoman Way?
- Towards a Disenchanted World?
- Emotions as a Marker of Disenchantment
- Epilogue: Social and Global Aspects of Ottoman Esotericism
- The Global Dimension.
- The Supernatural and Social History
- The Vernacular: An Entangled Tradition
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 24, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-895480-8
- 0-19-895479-4
- 9780198954798
- OCLC:
- 1553139260
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