The assonance contained in the title of this book duplicates a rapprochement — Coran and talismans — which has not been problematic so far. Perhaps one of the most striking effects of 11 September 2001 is that of having to anticipate the Islamic ‘anger’ that this affixing to the front of a book bringing together the result of a collective research into the ‘Islamic magy’ could provoke. This justifies the plan of the structure roughly divided into three parts. A first time...