The occult sciences in pre-modern Islamic cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: El-Bizri, Nader, Orthmann, Eva
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Beirut ; Würzburg : Ergon Verlag, 2018.
Series:Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 138.
Subjects:
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.