Workshop: Medicine, Magic and Healing
Professor Nahyan Fancy will host this workshop at the Hotel Du Vin In Exeter. Please see details below to register.
| An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies research event | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 - 30 November 2021 |
| Time | Event spans several days |
| Place | Hotel Du Vin Exeter |
| Provider | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
Event details
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.uk for further information
Medicine, Magic and Healing
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 ShÄmil of SirÄj al-DÄ«n al-SakkÄkÄ« (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
