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The Book of the Complete Two Treatises on Jinn Magic from an Arabic Grimoire Series: Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, Volume: 12 Authors:  Emily Selove  and  Luca Patrizi Sirāj...

Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076234 The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī’s Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described,...

A Leverhulme-funded research project, 2019-2022. This project focuses on a collection of magical texts attributed to an influential medieval scholar of the Arabic language, Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī (d. 1229 CE)....

November 28th 6-8 PM Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sorcerers-handbook-dirt-from-the-crossroads-in-the-13th-century-tickets-462520740987 A sheep heart full of pins, a graveyard at midnight, a contract...

A two-day workshop for Sorcerer’s Handbook Team members. Click next arrow to see page two! Sorcerer’s Handbook Poster final

We were honored to have helped inspire this thoughtful artistic response by Sarah Scaife, South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership AHRC funded PhD Researcher: https://www.academia.edu/43391666/Visions_as_practice_in_practice_based_research “Presentation given to the...

Fringe Expertise? Cross-Cultural Readings of Occult Practices in Premodern Eurasia International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 4-7 July 2022 Sponsored by The Sorcerer’s Handbook: Medieval Arabic Magic in Context Project Organisers: Dr Sarah...

Monday the 12th 2:30- 2:40 pm: Welcome 2:40-3:10: Emily Selove: The Book of the Complete as a Complete Book: Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī’s grimoire taken as a whole 3:10-3:40: Michael Noble:...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_UYo1bOFLQ This is a love talisman from a book of lunar mansions, widely circulated in the medieval world. It is meant to be carved out of ebony, which is way...