Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004426965 ISBN 13 : 9789004426962

Editeur : Brill, 2020

Synopsis

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Liana Saif (Ph.D. University of London, 2012) is a research associate at the Warburg Institute (London). She is an intellectual historian specializing in medieval Islamicate occult sciences and Islamic esotericism. She also conducts research on the entanglement and exchange of esoteric and occult ideas and practices between the Latin-West and the Islamicate world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Francesca Leoni (Ph.D. Princeton, 2008) is Assistant Keeper and Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. She has published on wide-ranging topics, including Persian manuscript painting, eroticism and the occult in Islamicate visual arts. Matthew Melvin-Koushki (Ph.D. Yale, 2012) is Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary focus on history of science, history of philosophy and history of the book. Farouk Yahya (Ph.D. SOAS, University of London, 2013) is Research Associate at this university. He has published on Southeast Asian magic, divination and art, including Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts (Brill, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004426965
• ISBN 13: 9789004426962
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 722
• Éditeur: Saif Liana, Leoni Francesca, Melvin-Koushki Matthew, Yahya Farouk
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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