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Join us on November 7th at 6pm in Thomson 317 for a talk by MELC Lecturer Dr. Lillian McCabe.
The talk is entitled "Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret"
The Book of the Hidden Secret was an immensely popular text of theoretical and practical magic written by the famed Muslim theologian and philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210).
This talk shows how this text was a site where an Islamic theory of comparative religion was developed, and explores what this work, and translations of it, can tell us about the relationship between religion and magic in Islamic thought, and between enchantment and disenchantment more broadly.