Marcela A. Garcia Probert & Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections, Leiden, Brill, 2022
Al-Mandal al-sulaymānī is known from several manuscripts which will be presented here. Passing ov... more Al-Mandal al-sulaymānī is known from several manuscripts which will be presented here. Passing over the textual variations, we can say that it is a book on exorcism of the twelve tribes of jinn who agreed with Solomon that they would submit themselves to invocations formulated in accordance with Solomonic magic. A section of ms. Ṣanʿāʾ/DaM (A) will be compared to ms. Addis/IES Ar. 286. The evidence both manuscripts provide of their copyist, their place of conservation, and their language, implies that this section was known in the twentieth century to a Yemeni and Ethiopian, or at least to a Harari audience, and that it was known in the last quarter of the eighteenth century/first quarter of the nineteenth century to one in Yemen, so that we can infer the existence of a complementary path of transmission between the medieval Arab and Latin worlds. This inference is supported by the strong tradition of Solomonic magic in Ethiopia as magic in Christian contexts testifies
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