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Raby, Julian (dir.), Science, Tools and Magic. Part I: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe, Londres - Oxford, Azimuth Editions - Oxford University Press (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, 12), 1997, 2 vols., il·l.
- Resum
- The Nasser D. Khalili Collection contains an enormous number of historically important objects relating to the fields of Islamic science in astrology, astronomy, medicine, and magic. This two-part volume brings all these subjects together, and provides fascinating insight into the traditions and innovations of scholars and scientists in Islamic cultures. An intriguing and beautiful array of instruments and artefacts are presented here, accompanied by complete descriptions and authoritative essays.
This two-part volume contains a large and important group of objects and manuscripts that may be broadly categorised as scientific instruments, tools or magical implements. Many objects of this kind have never before been systematically catalogued, and this volume brings together much information previously scattered to present a corpus of material for future comparative study. The astronomical instruments are those primarily connected with the fundamental concerns of Islamic astronomy – determining the times of prayer and the direction of Mecca – and the teaching and practice of cosmology and astrology. The Collection includes important individual pieces, among them a fine celestial globe made in 1285–6 and a unique Judeo-Arabic astrolabe of c. 1300. Another 218 entries include medical manuscripts, magic bowls, amulets and other magical or geomantic devices that reflect different aspects of medieval Islamic medical care, while a group of mortars, a selection from the large collection of locks, and miscellaneous tools such as scissors, scales and weights, complete this survey of objects which embody the varied preoccupations of Islamic culture. The information presented includes a ground-breaking study of leather workers in medieval Iran.
Contents:
* pt. 1. Body and spirit, mapping the universe / by Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith
- Savage-Smith (1997), "Magic and Islam"
- Savage-Smith (1997), "Divination"
- Savage-Smith (1997), "Islamic celestial globes and ..."
* pt. 2. Mundane worlds / by Emilie Savage-Smith, with contributions from Francis Maddison, Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Tim Stanley
- Matèries
- Catàlegs i inventaris
Astronomia i astrologia
Medicina
Màgia
Àrab
- Notes
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