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Matthew Melvin-Koushki <\/strong>(PhD Yale) is Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary focus on history of science, history of philosophy and history of the book. His several forthcoming books include The Occult Science of Empire in Aqquyunlu-Safavid Iran: Two Shirazi Lettrists and Their Manuals of Magic<\/em>, and he is co-editor of the volumes Islamicate Occultism: New Perspectives<\/em> (2017) and Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice <\/em>(2020). Taken together, his body of work to date constitutes a new analytical framework for the study of early modern Persianate societies\u2014one which retrieves Islamic Magic as a crucial category for interrogating the construction of Western early modernities, and hence scientific modernity, more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAPER: The Islamic Occult between Early Modern Science and Modern Colonialism; or, American Missionaries and Officials Weaponize Arabic Occult-Scientific Texts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OBJECT: Samuel M. Zwemer (comp.), Kit\u0101b al-Ru\u1e25iy\u0101t <\/em> (Cairo, circa 1915)<\/strong>. [From the John Hay Library’s David E. Pingree Collection, Call No. BP87.5 .K57]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[CATALOGER’S NOTE: This volume contains 19 individually published Arabic works on magic, Islamic occultism, and esoteric sciences, all printed in Egypt — specifically, Cairo — in the first decade of the 20th century, as collected by and bound for Samuel Zwemer. These works are linked individually below, in the order in which they appear within the bound volume:]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u0101dh\u0101 Kit\u0101b al-Mu\u1e25aqqiq<\/a><\/em> (1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shif\u0101\u02bc al-asq\u0101m f\u012b \u02bbul\u016bm<\/a><\/em> (2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nafa al-Bari\u0101h \u02bbal\u0101 al-hur\u016bf<\/a><\/em> (3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u0101dh\u0101 kit\u0101b al-mu\u1e25aqqiq<\/a><\/em> (4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b sirr al-asr\u0101r f\u012b isti\u1e25\u1e0d\u0101r al-jinn<\/a><\/em> (5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

al- Sirr al-rabb\u0101n\u012b<\/a><\/em> (6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

al- Fay\u1e0d al-rabb\u0101n\u012b f\u012b \u02bbilm<\/a><\/em> (7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hibat al-mann\u0101n f\u012b isti\u1e25\u1e0d\u0101r<\/a><\/em> (8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

al- Asr\u0101r al-Il\u0101h\u012byah f\u012b faw\u0101\u02bcid al-\u1e6dibb<\/a><\/em> (9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b mujarrab\u0101t al-buy\u016bt f\u012b al-tibb<\/a><\/em> (10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

al- Lu\u02bclu\u02bc al-man\u1e93\u016bm f\u012b al-\u1e6dal\u0101sim<\/a><\/em> (11-12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

al- Fay\u1e0d al-rabb\u0101n\u012b f\u012b \u02bbilm<\/a><\/em> (13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b al-Sirr al-Rabh\u0101n\u012b f\u012b \u02bbUl\u016bm<\/a><\/em> (14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b al-sirr al-q\u0101ti\u02bb f\u012b \u02bbilm<\/a><\/em> (15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u0101dh\u0101 Kit\u0101b al-fa\u1e63l f\u012b u\u1e63\u016bl<\/a><\/em> (16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b al-durr al-na\u1e93\u012bm f\u012b \u1e25aw\u0101\u1e63\u1e63<\/a><\/em> (17)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b Mujarrab\u0101t al-\u02bb\u0101lim al-\u02bball\u0101mah<\/a><\/em> (18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit\u0101b al-fay\u1e0d al-mutaw\u0101l\u012b f\u012b Muthallath<\/a><\/em> (19)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew Melvin-Koushki (PhD Yale) is Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary … Matthew Melvin-Koushki<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}