Jean-Charles Coulon, La magie en terre d’Islam in the Middle Ages
Disciplines
Review
French
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Issu of a highly noticed doctoral thesis supported in 2013, Jean-Charles Coulon’s book filled a historical vacuum. There had been no studies on the Islamic magy, its sources and forms (pp. 21-23), but none that included such a broad chronological spectrum and documentation (religious, lexicographic, literary sources, and of course the magic treaties themselves). The author, as the title indicates from the outset, chooses...