In this episode we talk with Liana Saif on the impact of the Islamicate tradition on astrology and magic. She has researched extensively on Esotericism, Ocultism and Magic in the medieval and early modern periods. Liana Saif is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute and Université catholique de Louvain for the ERC project PhilAnd.
For a list of her published papers see: https://sas.academia.edu/LianaSaif
Her monograph, The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) can be found at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137399465
In this podcast we have the honour of talking with Professor Shlomo Sela, one of the leading historians of astrology. His research has focused...
In this episode, I talk with Fien de Block about her research on astrologers and astrological practices in the fifteenth-century Sultanate of Cairo. This...
This is episode 50 of the main podcast series! In this podcast we talk once more with researcher David Juste on his latest research...
