Book ID: CBB200403706

Un coniglio nel turbante. Intrattenimento e inganno nella scienza arabo-islamica (2021)

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Raggetti, Lucia (Author)


Editrice Bibliografica


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 287 pp.
Language: Italian

Già dall’antichità, la natura era rappresentata come un’intricata rete di relazioni tra i diversi elementi che la compongono. Minerali, piante e animali sono dotati di proprietà utili e misteriose che l’uomo può sfruttare a suo vantaggio. La cultura arabo-islamica si iscrive in questa tradizione, ricevendo dal mondo tardoantico un’eredità multiculturale che sarà riorganizzata, ampliata e adattata alle nuove esigenze, tra empirismo e tradizione letteraria. I prodigiosi effetti che derivano da una sapiente manipolazione della natura possono essere sfruttati nel campo della farmacologia, in molte forme d’artigianato, nell’agricoltura ma anche applicati all’intrattenimento e alla frode. Sia l’applicazione giocosa che quella illecita di queste proprietà sono forse uno dei loro aspetti meno noti e più curiosi della “scienza delle proprietà” a cui questo libro è dedicato. Un viaggio affascinante, un ricco spaccato del sapere condiviso, delle credenze popolari, delle aspirazioni collettive e della vita nelle strade delle metropoli del Vicino Oriente Islamico. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Since ancient times, nature was represented as an intricate network of relationships between the different elements that compose it. Minerals, plants and animals are endowed with useful and mysterious properties that man can exploit to his advantage. The Arab-Islamic culture is part of this tradition, receiving a multicultural heritage from the late ancient world that would be reorganized, expanded and adapted to new needs, between empiricism and literary tradition. The prodigious effects resulting from a skilful manipulation of nature could be exploited in the field of pharmacology, in many forms of crafts, in agriculture but also applied to entertainment and fraud. Both the playful and the illicit application of these properties are perhaps one of the least known and most curious aspects of the "science of properties" to which this book is dedicated. A fascinating journey, a rich cross-section of shared knowledge, popular beliefs, collective aspirations and life in the streets of the metropolises of the Islamic Near East.]

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Authors & Contributors
Robinson, Aileen Kaye
Gomoll, Lucian
Syon, Guillaume de
Sullivan, Jill A.
Stuckrad, Kocku von
Short, John Phillip
Concepts
Science and culture
Performance; demonstration
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Popular culture
Science and entertainment; science and spectacle
Natural philosophy
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Medieval
Early modern
20th century
Gilded Age (1870s-1900)
Places
Great Britain
Hellenistic world
England
Mediterranean region
United States
Spain
Institutions
Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā)
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