Angela's Symposium

islam and magic islamic alchemy islamic magic islamic occultism islamicate occult science islamicate occult sciences islamicate occultism talismanic magic

Occult Science in the Islamicate worldwithDr Matthew Melvin-Koushki

Islamic occultism, magic, esotericism and witchcraft

Matthew Melvin-Koushki (PhD Yale) is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of South Carolina, and founder of its new MA in Magic and Occult Science. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus,on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary focus on history of science, history of philosophy and history of the book. President of Societas Magica, he is co-editor of the volumes Islamicate Occultism: New Perspectives (2017) and Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (2021), and cofounder of the international working group Islamic Occult Studies on the Rise (IOSOTR), at islamicoccult.org, which showcases the newest work in this now burgeoning interdisciplinary field.

MY SET-UP

– Canon 90D camera https://amzn.to/3yQclh0

– Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 https://amzn.to/3JjU1BS

– Teleprompter https://amzn.to/3linWCB

– Shure SM7B Microphone https://amzn.to/3Jm5IYK

– Microphone stand https://amzn.to/3FueJOn

– Lights https://amzn.to/3Zdk8k1

– Wireless microphones https://amzn.to/3NFKBUG

CONNECT & SUPPORT

– SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER https://drangelapuca.com/#newsletter

– BECOME MY PATRON! https://www.patreon.com/angelapuca

– ONE-OFF DONATIONS https://paypal.me/angelasymposium

– JOIN MEMBERSHIPS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/join

– MY STORE ️ https://drangelapuca.com/store

– MY MERCH https://drangelapuca.creator-spring.com/

– Or SUPER THANK me in the comments!

FOLLOW ME

– Instagram (angela_symposium)

– Twitter (@angelapuca11)

– TikTok (Angela’s Symposium)

– Facebook (Dr Angela Puca)

Emily Selove and my SHWEP interview announcing our new USC and Exeter MAs in Magic and Occult Science:

https://shwep.net/2023/06/28/emily-selove-and-matt-melvin-koushki-on-two-new-postgraduate-programmes-in-magic/?fbclid=IwAR1agCohTo59GCK68g6brEnEM7jdrNG_gaq7ZcKc-UWWIK4gpil9irDUcU8

My academia.edu page:

https://sc.academia.edu/MatthewMelvinKoushki

A short article with a list of some of the Persian grimoires I’m currently working on:

https://www.academia.edu/38343009/How_to_Rule_the_World_Occult_Scientific_Manuals_of_the_Early_Modern_Persian_Cosmopolis

Another short article with a summary and edition of another short Persian grimoire:

https://www.academia.edu/96101312/Qizilbash_Magic_An_Edition_of_%CA%BFAli_Safi_b_Husayn_Va%CA%BFiz_Kashifi_s_Boon_for_Majd_al_Din_Exemplar_of_Timurid_Safavid_Sunni_Shi%CA%BFi_Occultism

Emily Selove on her forthcoming translation of a major Arabic Mongol-era grimoire:

https://shwep.net/oddcast/emily-selove-on-the-magical-book-of-al-sakkaki/

Selected translations from the Bunian Greater Sun of Gnoses:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sun_of_Knowledge/xpKkzgEACAAJ?hl=en

Noah Gardiner on the Bunian corpus:

https://sc.academia.edu/NoahGardiner

Michael Noble on Fakhr-i Razi’s grimoire The Hidden Secret:

https://shwep.net/oddcast/philosophising-the-occult-michael-noble-on-the-hidden-secret-of-fakr-al-din-al-razi/

On the Persianate geomantic tradition:

https://www.academia.edu/19579995/Persianate_Geomancy_from_%E1%B9%AC%C5%ABs%C4%AB_to_the_Millennium_A_Preliminary_Survey

On the Latinate geomantic tradition:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_and_Practice_of_Geomancy/yTx-AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

http://www.alexandercummins.com/blog/interestedingeomancy

https://digitalambler.com/category/geomancy/

Islamic Occult Studies on the Rise (IOSOTR):

https://www.islamicoccult.org/

Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices:

https://www.rensep.org/

Published on July 3, 2023

Related

Shamanic PhysicswithFred Alan Wolf

November 1, 2023

Shamans see the world as made up of vibrations, using resonance between individuals to effect healings. Fred Alan Wolf discusses his efforts to explain shamanic realities in terms of modern physics. He suggests that shamans interact with parallel universes and are able to enter into the world of the dead.

Live Stream EventwithKaren Frances McCarthy and Angela Puca

October 30, 2023

Angela Puca, MA, PhD, is a Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and a Researcher in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Leeds/Leeds Trinity University. Her doctoral research is on “Autochthonous and Trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy”. She hosts “Angela’s Symposium” channel on YouTube. The link is https://bit.ly/32Bz3KC.

Mind PowerwithBernie Zilbergeld

October 28, 2023

People who are motivated to transform and improve their lives can do so effectively by harnassing the power of their own minds. The late Bernie Zilbergeld, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Mind Power, suggests a number of techniques – among them learning to monitor and change negative thought patterns, working with positive memories, visualizing goals, [...]

The Seat of the SoulwithGary Zukav

October 30, 2023

The path to understanding the soul is through the heart, not the mind. Gary Zukav maintains that the process of spiritual growth is one of aligning the personality with the soul. He also suggests that an understanding of the soul necessitates a nonjudgmental reverence for all of life.

Henry Corbin and the Mundus ImaginaliswithTom Cheetham

August 4, 2023

Here he describes the life and scholarship of the French scholar, Henry Corbin, particularly with reference to Iranian mysticism and his concept of the imaginal.

Consciousness After DeathwithImants Barušs

September 8, 2023

Here he explains how he teaches college students about the possibility of life after death.

Researching the AfterlifewithRobert Bigelow

August 20, 2023

Here he shares his interest in establishing empirical evidence for the existence of the afterlife, and its implications.

Researching Near-Death ExperienceswithBruce Greyson

April 16, 2021

Here he provides an overview of his half-century of investigation into NDEs. He describes his initial encounter with Raymond Moody as well as the creation of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. He examines the question of the evidentiality of NDEs for postmortem survival. He highlights some of the most interesting cases he has explored.

Mind, Brain, and SpiritwithPeter Fenwick

March 26, 2021

Here he describes his research in a variety of areas including epilepsy, near-death experience, deathbed experiences, and the dying process itself. He also describes unusual research on the process of “giving light” associated with a spiritual teacher named Alain Forget. EEG measurements during this process were suggestive of brain to brain communication.