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Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans

A catalogue of seals and talismans housed at the Ashmolean from the 8th to 19th century Islamic world, by Ludvik Kalus (published Oxford, 1986).

Islamic Seals and Talismans by Ludvik Kalus

Bibliography

Seals and talismans

[A.] CHABOUILLET, Catalogue général et raisonné des camées et pierres gravées de la bihliothèque Impériale suivi de la description des autres monuments exposés dans le Cabinet des Médailles et Antiques, Paris, (1858).

A. CHABOUILLET, Description des antiquités et objets d'art composant le Cabinet de M. Louis Fould, Paris, 1861.

G. J. CHESTER, Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxford. 1881.

David JAMES, Koranverse en miniature, in Kunst und Antiquittäten, März/April, 1981, Hannover, p.14-22, ills.

Ludvik KALUS, Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Catalogue des cachets, bulles et talismans islamiques, Paris, 1981.

Michelangelo LANCI, Trattato delle simboliche rappresentanze arabiche e della varia generazione de' musulmani caratteri sopra differenti materie operati, II, Paris, 1845.

T. N. MUKHARJI, Art-manufactures of India, Calcutta, 1888.

M. REINAUD, Monumens arabes, persans et turcs, du cabinet de M. le Duc de Blacas et d’autres cabinets, I—II, Paris, 1828.

Don Eduardo SAAVEDRA,  Joyas arábigas con inscripciones, in Musee Español de Antigüedades, I, 1872, p 471-482, pl.

G. SALMON, Notes d'épigraphie arabe, in BIFAO, II, 1902, p. 110-111.

J. Ph. VOGEL, Catalogue of the Delhi Museum of Archaeology, Calcutta, 1908.

Seals

Qeyamuddin AHMAD, Some Seals and Signets of the Later Mughal Period, in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, XXIII, 1961, p. 367-374, pls. 13-14 A. I)

A. D. H. BHIVAR, An Unknown Punjab Seal-Collection, in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, XXIII, 1961, p. 309-327, pls. 7-8.

Heribert BUSSE, Untersuchungen zum islamischen Kanzleiwesen, an Hand turkmenischer und safawidischer Urkunden, coll. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo, Islamische Reihe, 1, Cairo. 1959.

Encyclopédie de I'islam, lère éd. (Khatim; Muhr).

Géza FEHER jr., Les cachets et anneaux sigillaires à inscription turque du Musée National Hongrois, in Folia Archaeologica, 11, 1959, p. 187-196, pls. 24 26.

L. FEKETE, Einführung in die persische Paläographie, 101 persische Dokumente, Budapest, 1977.

The Rev. Father FELIX, The Mughal Seals, in Journal of the Panjab Historical Society, V, 1916, p. 100-125.

A. GOLCHIN-E MA'ÂNI, Mohr va naqsh-e Mohr, in Honor o mardom, 191-192, 16th year, 1357/1978, p.42-63.

A. GROHMANN, Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Sphragistik (aus E. Herzfeld’s Nachlass), in Archaeologica Orientalia in Memoriam Ernst Herzfeld, New York, 1952, p. 134 138.

Freiherr HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Abhandlungen über die Siegel der Araber, Perser und Türken, Wien, 1849.

Hurmuz KAUS, Independence of Asaf Jah from Mughal Rule, in The Numismatic Circular, 73, no. 11, 1965, p. 233-234, ills.

Hurmuz KAUS, A Seal of a Muslim Ecclesiastic, in The Numismatic Circular, 75. No, 12, 1967, p. 330-331, ills.

Hurmurz KAUS, A Few Seals of Indian Muslim Women, in The Numismatic Circular, 76, no. 1, 1968, p. 5-6, ills.

Hurmus KAUS, A Seal of a Shia Muslim, in The Numismatic Circular, 77, no. 1, 1969, p. 8, ills.

Manuel KEENE, The lapidary arts in Islam; An underappreciated Tradition, in Expedition, Fall 1981, p. 24-39.

V. A KRACHKOVSKAJA, Pechat' Bagratida Ashota s arabskoj nadpisju, in Kraktie soobshchenija Instituta istorii material’noj kul’tury Akademii Nauk SSSR, XII, 1946, p. II2-II7.

Christoph Gottlieb von MURR, Drey Abhandlungen von der Geschichte der Araber überhaupt derselben Münzen und Siegeln, Nürnberg, 1770 (sec Abh. Ill: Dritte Abhandlung: Von den Siegeln der Araber, p 83-102).

H. L. RABINO, Coins, medals and seals of the Shâhs of Irân (1500-1941), Cambridge, 1945.

A. V. RAGIMOV, Pechat'iz Baylakana, in Epigrafika Vostoka, XIX, 1969, p. 103-104, ill.

P. S. SAVEL’EV, O vostochnykh nadpisjakh na nekotorykh ruskikh pechatjakh, in Izvestija Arkheologicheskogo obshchestva, I, 1859, p. 271.

SEDILLOT, Sur un sceau de Schah Rokh, fils de Tamerlan, et sur quelques monnaies des Timourides de la Transoxiane, in JA, 3ème série, X, 1840, p. 295-319, pl.

M. SIOUFFI, Notice sur le cachet du sultan mogol Oldjaïtou Khodabendèh, in JA, 9ème série, VIII, 1896, p. 331-45.

R. R. TRIPATHI, Stone seals in Allahabad Museum, in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, 28, Pt. 2, 1966, p. 182-188, ils.

Ismail Hakki UZUNÇARŞILI, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi mühürler seksiyonu rehberi / Guide Book of the Seals Section of Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1959.

Talismans

Georges C. ANAWATI, Trois talismans musulmans en arabe provenant du Mali (marché de Mopti), dans Annales islamologiques, XI, 1972, p. 287-339.

C. BACHATLY, Notes sur quelques amulettes égyptiennes, in Bulletin de la Société Géographique de l’Egypte, 17, 1929-31. p. 49-60 and 183-188.

T. CANAAN, The Decipherment of Arabic Talismans, in Beyrutus, IV, 1937, p. 69-110, 26 fig.; V, 1938, p. 141-151.

M. CASANOVA, Alphabets magiques arabes, in JA, Xlèmc série, 18, 1921, p. 37-55; 19, 1922, p. 250-262.

Etienne COMBE, Notes d'archéologie musulmane, III: Trois amulettes, in BIFAO, XV, 1918, p. 207-209.

Bess Allen DONALDSON, The Koran as magic, in Moslem World, 27, 1937, p. 254-266.

Edmond DOUTTÉ, Magie & religion dans l’Afrique du Nord, Alger, 1909.

Encyclopédie de l’islam, lère éd. (Diw; Ḥamā'il: Kāhin: Shaiṭān; Siḥr); 2ème éd. (Djadwal; Djafr; Hārūt wa Mārūt; Iblis; ‘Ifrit).

HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Ueber die Talismane der Moslimen, in Fundgruben des Orients, IV, 1814, p. 155-164.

Rudolf KRISS and Hubert KRISS-HEINRICH, Volksglaube im Bereich des Islam, B. II: Amulette, Zauberformeln und Beschwörungen, Wiesbaden, 1962.

Michelangelo LANCI, Trattato delle simboliche rappresentanze arabiche e della varia generazione de’ musulmani caratteri sopra differenti materie operati, II, Paris, 1845.

F. MAACK, Talisman turc, Hamburg, 1925.

J. MARQUES-RIVIERE, Amulettes, talismans et pantacles dans Ies traditions orientales et occidentales, Paris, 1950; 2nd ed. Paris. 1972.

D. C. PHILLOTT and Muhammad Kazim SHIRAZI, Notes on certain Shi’ah tilisms, in Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, n.s., 2, 1906, p. 534-537.

Hans-Siegfried SCHUSTER, Ein Talisman mit magischen Quadraten, in Festschrift Werner Caskel, Leiden, 1968, p. 290-307, 3 pl., 6 fig.

H. S. SCHUSTER, Magische Quadrate im islamischen Bereich, in Der Islam, IL, 1, 1972, p. 1-84.

Moïse SCHWAB, Une amulette arabe, in JA, Xème série, 16, 1910, p. 341-345.

S. SELIGMAN, Das Siebenschlafer Amulett, in Der Islam, V, 1915, p. 370 sqq.

W. R. TAYLOR, An arabic amulet, in Moslem World, XXV, 1935. p. 161-165. fig.

H. A. WINKLER, Siegel und Charaktere in der muhammedanischen Zauberei, coll. Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, 7, Berlin and Leipzig, 1930.

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