Note: In the volume amulets and talismans produced by Muslims and non-Muslims in the Islamicate world, are studied within a broader system of meaning, focussing on the complex role these objects played in pre-modern societies. , Acknowledgements -- , List of Figures and Tables -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates -- , Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment / , Part 1 Transmission -- , 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah / , 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES  286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices / , 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition / , Part 2 Efficacy -- , 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library / , 5 "This Blessed Place": The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo / , 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams / , 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets? / , Part 3 Collecting and Collections -- , 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask / , 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum / , 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets / , 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History / , Glossary -- , Index.

Note: Introduction , Administration & government : a late Ayyubid report of death found at Qusayr al-Qadim (Egypt) , On the identity of Shahralanyozan in the Greek and Middle Persian papyri from Egypt , Le monastere de baouit et l'administration arabe , Fiscal evidence from the nessana Papyri , Commerce & travel: travel in Coptic documentary texts , Le transport de marchandises et de personnes sur le Nil en 823a.h./1420e.c , Language & culture: P.cair.arab. iii 167: a discussion of the Akhmim declaration , Greek and Arabic in Nessana , The master spoke: "take one of 'the sun' and one unit of almulgam." hitherto unnoticed coptic papyrological evidence for early Arabic alchemy , Terms for vessels in Arabic and Coptic documentary texts and their archaeological and ethnographic correlates , A Qur'anic amulet on papyrus: p.utah.atiya.ar. 342 , New editions & collections: Les papyrus arabes de Heidelberg disparus. essai de reconstruction et d'analyse , Two new Arabic editions: a land survey from ihnas and hadiths concerning funerary practice , Sunshine wine on the Nile , Beiträge teilweise englisch, teilweise französisch

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Note: In the volume amulets and talismans produced by Muslims and non-Muslims in the Islamicate world, are studied within a broader system of meaning, focussing on the complex role these objects played in pre-modern societies , Includes bibliographical references and index , Acknowledgements , List of Figures and Tables , Notes on Contributors , Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates , Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment , Part 1 Transmission , 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah , 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES  286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices , 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition , Part 2 Efficacy , 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library , 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo , 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams , 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets? , Part 3 Collecting and Collections , 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask , 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum , 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets , 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History , Glossary , Index.