Spellbound: Arabic and Persian Handbooks of Practical Magic (symposium)
Les vendredi et samedi 19 et 20 avril 2024 a lieu le symposium « Spellbound: Arabic and Persian Handbooks of Practical Magic » organisé par Travis Zadeh (Yale University) et Lillian McCabe (Yale University) à Yale University.
Programme
Vendredi 19 avril 2024
Panel 1 : Material Transformations
Lieu : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 121
9h00–11h00
Modérateur : Travis Zadeh (Yale University)
Lillian McCabe, Ahmed Nur, Dominique Sirgy (Yale University), « Selections from the Beinecke Collection »
Emily Selove (University of Exeter), « Transforming the Complete Book into the Book of the Complete »
Panel 2 : Classifications
Lieu : Humanities Quadrangle 276
11h30–13h00
Modératrice : Jane Mikkelson (Yale University)
Kevin van Bladel (Yale University), « Ibn Farīghūn on the Occult Sciences »
Ahmed Nur (Yale University), « Ottoman Occult Interconnectedness: The View from Taşköprüzade’s Encyclopedia »
Panel 3 : Intermediaries
14h00–15h30
Modératrice : Shawkat Toorawa (Yale University)
Valentina Grasso (Bard College), « Arabian Preternatural Beings: Jinn and Shayṭān before and after Islam »
Lyla Halsted (Davidson College), « Magic-Medicinal bowls and their Ephemeral Precursors: Broad-Spectrum Therapeutic Efficacy in al-Ṭabasī’s Shāmil »
Panel 4 : The Matter of Rāzī and Sakkākī
16h00–17h30
Modérateur : David Baldi (Yale University)
Michael Noble (University of Exeter), « Astral Religion and Sacred Persian Kingship in the thought of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Suhrawardī »
Lillian McCabe (Yale University), « Rāzī and Sakkākī(s) on Taskhīr »
Samedi 20 avril 2024
Panel 5 : Magic on the Move
9h30–11h00
Lieu : Humanities Quadrangle 276
Modératrice : Sana Jamal (Yale University)
Liana Saif (University of Amsterdam), « Islamicate Magic in the 12th Century: Hermetic, Islamic, and Jewish Entanglements »
Łukasz Piątak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), « Beings of Light to Be Praised (and their Persian Nomina Barbara?): Parallels between Zoroastrian Yashts and al-Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa-l-Taqdīsāt »
Panel 6 : Mandalas and Mantras
11h30–12h30
Modérateur : Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University)
Travis Zadeh (Yale University), « Demons, Deities, and Mysterious Vocabulary in Arabic and Persian Incantations »
Supriya Gandhi (Yale University), « Mantras from India to Syria and Back Again »
Panel 7 : Persian Magicians
13h30–15h00
Modératrice : Dominique Sirgy (Yale University)
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina), « A Sīmāwian-Sakkākian Manual of Boozing and Battling Magic: ʿAlī Ṣafī’s Boon for the Khan (1522) and the Democratization of Timurid-Safavid Court Occulture »
Daniel Sheffield (Princeton University), « The Magus and the Sorcerer: Magical Practices in Early Modern Zoroastrianism »
Panel 8 : Mystics, Monarchs, and Everyday Life
15h30-17h00
Modératrice : Ojaswini Shekhawat (Yale University)
Eva Orthmann (University of Göttingen), « The Forty One Names of God and Their Astonishing Effects: Muḥammad Ghauth and the Tradition of His Astro-Magic Practices »
Dahlia Gubara (Koç University), « The Everyday Life of Ideas in an 18th-Century Occult Text »
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jean-Charles Coulon (19 avril 2024). Spellbound: Arabic and Persian Handbooks of Practical Magic (symposium). Le monde des djinns. Consulté le 17 septembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/x2hl
