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Title Magic in Malta : Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 / edited by Alexander Mallett, Catherine Rider, Dionisius A. Agius
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 593 pages) : color illustrations
Series Islamic history and civilization ; volume 185
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 185.
Contents Introduction / Alex Mallett, Dionisius A. Agius and Catherine Rider -- The trial of Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta,1605 : transcription and translation / Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider -- TheTrial of Sellem : a microhistorical commentary / Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider -- Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur : a Muslim magician in Catholic Malta / Joan Abela -- The Cognitive landscape of seventeenth-century Malta : communicating information in a cosmopolitan society / Dionisius A. Agius -The Maltese Inquisition : expectations and evidence in the Sellem Case / Jonathan Barry -- The witch and the judge : Sellem before the Roman Inquisition, 1605 / Frans Ciappara -- An anthropology of confessional practice regarding magic in early seventeenth-century Malta :Liminality, Communitas, Exclusion / Ian R. Netton -- Magic and divination lost in translation : a Cairene in a Maltese Inquisition / Liana Saif -- Geomancy, divination, and Islam / Pierre Lory -- Learned and common magic in the Trial of Sellem / Catherine Rider -- Measurement and magic : some notes on the texts on measurement in the inquisition documents against Sellem the Moor / Charles Burnett -- Magician Ottoman North Africa,1570-1700, as seen through European eyes / Paul Auchterlonie -- Concluding remarks / Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius
Summary "In this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian, and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta's 1605 trial of the 'Moorish' slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition"-- Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2022)
Subject Mansur, Sellem bin al-Sheikh -- Trials, litigation, etc
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Malta -- History -- Sources
Witch hunting -- Malta -- History -- Sources
Magicians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Malta -- History -- Sources
Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Malta -- History -- Sources
Inquisition -- Malta -- History -- Sources
Inquisition
Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Trials
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witch hunting
Malta
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Mallett, Alexander, editor
Rider, Catherine (Catherine Rosemary), editor.
Agius, Dionisius A., editor.
LC no. 2021048054
ISBN 9789004498945
900449894X
9004498931
9789004498938