Magical Texts from the Cambridge Cairo Genizah Collection
Journal Title: Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
The fragments of books and documents in the Cairo Geniza, is well known, discovered at the ends of the twentieth century offers a multitude of materials for centuries that Jews and Arabs lived together. There are also prepared texts about magic which has existed as if it almost were an indispensable part of social life between such materials. Texts in a deteriorated condition reflect the magical view of that period and giving information about the materials used and construction procedures of magical practices and language. With this paper is intended pointing to the importance in the magical research of these manuscripts and to inform about these texts the researchers who want to do research in this field and to contribute analyse and investigate of these texts. Cairo Geniza manuscripts are distributed to many of the world. The magical texts published by Cambridge University in the online system and besides these, the magical texts in the books prepared about these which are yet to be published online were taken into account and in case it deemed necessary the issues explained the with examples.
Authors and Affiliations
Azize UYGUN| Yrd. Doç. Dr., Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, İlahiyat Fak. azizeuygun@sdu.edu.tr
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