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    This document provides an agenda for a three-day international conference on Islamic occultism in theory and practice to be held at the Ashmolean Museum. The conference will feature nine panels over three days covering various topics related to Islamic occult sciences such as Hermeticism, talismans, magic squares, occult libraries, amulets, alchemy, astrology, ciphers, and calligraphy. It will include presentations from over 20 scholars and include opportunities for exhibition visits, receptions, and meals.

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    This document provides an agenda for a three-day international conference on Islamic occultism in theory and practice to be held at the Ashmolean Museum. The conference will feature nine panels over three days covering various topics related to Islamic occult sciences such as Hermeticism, talismans, magic squares, occult libraries, amulets, alchemy, astrology, ciphers, and calligraphy. It will include presentations from over 20 scholars and include opportunities for exhibition visits, receptions, and meals.

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    Islamic Occultism

    in Theory & Practice

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford


    Headley Lecture Theatre
    6–8 January 2017
    An International Conference

    Organized by

    Liana Saif
    Université catholique de Louvain/University of Oxford

    Matthew Melvin-Koushki
    University of South Carolina

    Francesca Leoni
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

    Farouk Yahya
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

    Sponsored by

    University of Oxford
    Ashmolean Museum
    The Barakat Trust

    In tandem with the Ashmolean exhibition

    Power & Protection: Islamic Art & the Supernatural


    20 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

    Image credit: Kristen Alvanson, “Abjad Diagram from Nonad,” Maskh series (www.kristenalvanson.com)
    Friday, 6 January

    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration

    12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Welcome and Introduction

    Keynote
    12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute)
    Title TBA

    1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

    Panel 1: Hermetism and Sabianism in Islamic Magic


    Chair: Francesca Leoni

    2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Liana Saif (Université catholique de Louvain/University of Oxford)


    Evaluating the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and Its Impact on Magic in
    Medieval Islam

    3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Michael Noble (The Warburg Institute)


    Sabian Occult Ritual as an Alternative Path to Human Perfection

    3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Tea Break

    Panel 2: Islamic Talismans—Arabic and Turkish, Sunni and Shiʿi


    Chair: Liana Saif

    4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Francesca Leoni (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)


    Wasila/Wasita: A Turkish Talisman

    4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Maryam Ekhtiar (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
    Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield: The Sunni/Shiʿi Divide

    5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Exhibition Visit

    6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Drink Reception

    7:00 p.m. Dinner for Speakers


    Saturday, 7 January

    Panel 3: Magic Squares and Indian Mages in Arabic Manuscripts


    Chair: Francesca Leoni

    9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Bink Hallum (British Library)


    Magic Squares in the Renaissance of Islam: New Light on Early Arabic awfāq
    Literature

    10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Jean-Charles Coulon (Paris-Sorbonne University)


    The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-Hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences

    10:30 – 11:00 a.m Coffee Break

    Panel 4: The Brethren of Purity, Old and New


    Chair: Noah Gardiner

    11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Godefroid de Callataÿ (Université catholique de Louvain) and Liana Saif
    The Epistle on Magic in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ

    11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)


    Astronomers, Lettrists and Sultan-Scientists Mathematize the Cosmos:
    Neopythagorean Occultism at the Samarkand Observatory of Ulugh Beg

    12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

    Panel 5: Occult Libraries and Their Contents


    Chair: Matthew Melvin-Koushki

    1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Noah Gardiner (University of South Carolina)


    The Occult Library of the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq

    2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Yasmine Al-Saleh (Dār al-Āthār al-Islāmiyya, Kuwait)


    The Purple Talismanic Scroll

    2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Tea Break

    Panel 6: Amulets and Magic Bowls, Past and Present


    Chair: Farouk Yahya
    3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Roberta Giunta and Michele Bernardini (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
    Islamic Magic Bowls: Towards a Comprehensive Investigation

    3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)


    Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s Turkey

    4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks


    Sunday, 8 January

    Panel 7: Alchemy, Astrology and Astrological Alchemy


    Chair: Nicholas Harris

    10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Tuna Artun (Rutgers University)


    My Companions Are Like the Stars: Astrological Concepts in the Alchemical
    Kashf al-asrār fī hatk al-astār

    10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Ahmet Tunç Şen (Leiden University)


    In Defense of Astrology: Muʾayyadzāda ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s (d. 1516) Rebuttal of
    Anti-Astrology Arguments

    11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break

    Panel 8: Ciphers and Symbols in Islamic Occult Science


    Chair: Liana Saif

    11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Nicholas Harris (University of Pennsylvania)


    Ciphers and Secrecy: Alchemy, Cryptography, and the Occult

    12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Blanca Villuendas (University of Barcelona)


    The Dilemmas of an Editorial Project: Ibn al-Maḥfūf’s Book on the Triplets in
    Geomancy

    12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch

    Panel 9: Occult Calligraphy in Islamic Southeast Asia


    Chair: Michael Noble

    2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Farouk Yahya (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)


    Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAli in Southeast Asia

    2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Fiona Kerlogue (Horniman Museum, London)


    Calligraphic Batiks

    Roundtable
    3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford), Venetia Porter (British
    Museum, London), Azfar Moin (University of Texas at Austin)

    4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks

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