The occult sciences in pre-modern Islamic cultures /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Beirut ; Würzburg :
Ergon Verlag,
2018.
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| Series: | Beiruter Texte und Studien ;
Bd. 138. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Notes on contributors
- The occult in numbers : the arithmology and arithmetic of the Ikhwān al-Sạfā̕ / Nader El-Bizri
- Between medicine and natural philosophy : avicenna on properties (khawāsṣ)̣ and qualities (kayfiyyāt) / Emma Gannagé
- Is physiognomy a acience? : reflections on the Kitāb al-Firāsa of Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī / Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Tarif Khalidi
- A acience for kings and masters : Firāsa at the crossroad between natural sciences and power relationships in Arabic sources / Antonella Ghersetti
- Cometary theory and prognostications in the Islamic world and their relationship to Renaissance Europe / George Saliba
- Predictions of 'Natural' disasters in the astro-meteorological Malhamah handbooks / Kristine Chalyan-Daffner
- Persianate geomancy from Tụ̄si to the millennium : a preliminary survey / Matthew Melvin-Koushki
- The occult sciences in Hụrūfī discourse : science of letters, alchemy and astrology in the works of Fadḷallāh Astarābādī / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
- Lettrism and magic in an early Mughal text : Muhạmmad Ghawth's Kitāb al-Jawāhir al-Khams / Eva Orthmann
- Going Egyptian in Medieval Arabic Culture : the long-desired fulfilled knowledge of occult alphabets by Pseudo-Ibn Wahṣhiyya / Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Annette Sundermeyer.