Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

‎Contents
‎List of Illustrations and Tables
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Transliteration, Style, and Dates
‎Chapter 1. Introduction (Saif and Leoni)
‎Part 1. Occult Theories: Inception and Reception
	‎Chapter 2. The Three Divisions of Arabic Magic (Burnett)
	‎Chapter 3. New Light on Early Arabic Awfāq Literature (Hallum)
	‎Chapter 4. A Study of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b) (Saif)
	‎Chapter 5. Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Sirr al-maktūm (Noble)
	‎Chapter 6. Lettrism and History in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī’s Naẓm al-sulūk fī musāmarat al-mulūk (Gardiner)
	‎Chapter 7. Kāshifī’s Asrār-i qāsimī: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife (Subtelny)
‎Part 2. Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action
	‎Chapter 8. The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-Hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences (Coulon)
	‎Chapter 9. Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemālpaşazāde’s (d. 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism (Melvin-Koushki)
	‎Chapter 10. Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield (Ekhtiar and Parikh)
	‎Chapter 11. Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAlī in Southeast Asia (Yahya)
	‎Chapter 12. A Stamped Talisman (Leoni)
	‎Chapter 13. Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s “New Turkey” (Gruber)
	‎Chapter 14. Postscript: Cutting Ariadne’s Thread, or How to Think Otherwise in the Maze (Zadeh)
‎Index