Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605

Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605

Agius, Dionysius A.; Rider, Catherine; Mallett, Alexander

Brill

06/2022

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Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Figures

Abbreviations

Arabic Transliteration System

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

?Alex Mallett, Dionisius A. Agius and Catherine Rider



Part 1



1 The Trial of Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605: Transcription and Translation

?Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider



Part 2



2 The Trial of Sellem: A Microhistorical Commentary

?Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider



Part 3



3 Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur: A Muslim Magician in Catholic Malta

?Joan Abela



4 The Cognitive Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Malta: Communicating Information in a Cosmopolitan Society

?Dionisius A. Agius



5 The Maltese Inquisition: Expectations and Evidence in the Sellem Case

?Jonathan Barry



6 The Witch and the Judge: Sellem before the Roman Inquisition, 1605

?Frans Ciappara



7 An Anthropology of Confessional Practice Regarding Magic in Early Seventeenth-Century Malta: Liminality, Communitas, Exclusion

?Ian R. Netton



Part 4



8 Magic and Divination Lost in Translation: A Cairene in a Maltese Inquisition

?Liana Saif



9 Geomancy, Divination, and Islam

?Pierre Lory



10 Learned and Common Magic in the Trial of Sellem

?Catherine Rider



11 Measurement and Magic: Some Notes on the Texts on Measurement in the Inquisition Documents against Sellem the Moor

?Charles Burnett



12 Magic in Ottoman North Africa, 1570-1700, as seen through European Eyes

?Paul Auchterlonie



Part 5



13 Concluding Remarks

?Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius



Appendix 1: Evidence Presented to the Inquisition by Vittorio Cassar: Instructions for Mathematics and the Practise of Geomancy

?Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Appendix 2: Tabula Sybillum

?Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider

Index
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Christian-Muslim Relations; Crusades; Demons; Divination; Early-Modern History; Geomancy; Hospitallers; Islamic Magic; Knights of St John; Mediterranean History; Ottoman History; Papacy; Popular Magic; Slavery