• DOI:10.1177/0971945815626316
Corpus ID: 163875196

Astrology, Lettrism, Geomancy

@article{MelvinKoushki2016AstrologyLG,
  title={Astrology, Lettrism, Geomancy},
  author={Matthew Melvin-Koushki},
  journal={The Medieval History Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={19},
  pages={142 - 150}
}

Matthew Melvin-Koushki

Published 2016

History

The Medieval History Journal

In the Persianate world, the formative fourteenth to sixteenth centuries witnessed an occultist arms race, as it were, for messianic and sacral forms of political legitimacy, which reached a crescendo with the approach of the Islamic millennium (1592 CE). As in any arms race, ruling dynasts eagerly cultivated professional specialists in the relevant field—to wit, the art and science of walāya, ‘sacral power’. The Mongol destruction of the reigning, but brittle, caliphal-sultanic-jurisprudential… CONTINUE READING

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