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4. Talismanic Images: Astrological Composites and Efficacious Symbioses
Persis Berlekamp
Description: Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam
In Sultan Ahmad’s 1388 Tusi manuscript, the entry for marble includes an image of an angel with a crown holding a jug (fig. 59). The text explains that it can be used to make a marble talismanic ring. Several...
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Persis Berlekamp
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2011 by Persis Berlekamp
Related print edition pages: pp.119-149
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00270.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21566
Chapter subject tags:Islamic astrologyIslamic illumination of books and manuscriptsTalismansṢūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1405

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4. Talismanic Images: Astrological Composites and Efficacious Symbioses