Médecine, magie et guérison

Medicine, Magic and Healing 

Workshop

An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies research event

Date 29 - 30 November 2021
Place Hotel Du Vin Exeter


Please note regisration is required for this event as we have a number limit at the venue. Please contact Sarah Wood s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.ukfor further information


Monday, November 29

12–1 p.m. Lunch

1:15 p.m. Introduction

1:30–3 p.m. Panel 1:
Emily Selove, “Sleep in the Shāmil of Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī (d. 1229)”

Bink Hallum, “From Invincibility to Immunity: The Centesimal Magic Square in Legend, Theory and Practice”

3:30–5 p.m. Panel 2:
Earl Fontainelle, “The Theory of the Pneumatic Vehicle in Late-Antique Platonism and the Islamicate Medical Sciences” 

Nahyan Fancy, “Commentaries and the Emergence of non-Galenic, non-Avicennan Medical Theories”



Tuesday, November 30

9.30 a.m. Coffee

10 a.m.–12.15 p.m. Panel 3:
Petra Schmidl, “Magic and Medicine in 13th Century Yemen”

Dionisius Agius, “Sellem maurum servum sacre religionis: Magic and the Inquisition in Malta 1605”

Catherine Rider, “Christians, Muslims and Magical Healing in front of the Inquisition in Malta, 1600–1605”

12.15–1.30 p.m. Lunch