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in Practices / , 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition / , Part 2 Efficacy , 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library / , 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo / , 6 A Talismanic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.