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Between Religion and Magic in Ottoman Sunnism: Thaumaturgy and its Sources
Gastbeitrag von Nikola Pantić Nestled on the boundaries between religion and magic, thaumaturgy today largely avoids scholarly attention. The idea that a ritual is in popular belief connected to a coherent result without an immediately apparent causal relationship belongs to the study of magical belief and practice. Scholars rarely discuss the similarities between orthodox religious […]
Foto: SBB-PK / CC BY-NC-SAThe Manuscripts Oskar Rescher Sold to the Berlin State Library 1913–1936
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Güler Doğan Averbek Introduction Many of the libraries in Europe and America that have Islamic manuscripts in their collections owe a significant part of them to Oskar Rescher (aka Osman Reşer, 1883–1972). He was a global trader and broker of manuscripts, deserving the title of probably the most active trader of Islamic […]