Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
Abstract
Here, I explore the kinds of objects healers used when practising apotropaic magic to treat mental, spiritual, and/or physical conditions, their meaning and uses, and their role and place in the wider therapeutic landscape.
Bihter Esener
Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Medieval Mediterranean
I am an art historian of the visual and material cultures of the medieval Islamic world, with a special interest in Armenian, Byzantine, and Persian-Islamic artistic exchange and cultural encounters in medieval Anatolia, the South Caucasus, and the Eastern Mediterranean. I teach Islamic art and medieval Mediterranean in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. My research interests encompass the collection and display of Islamic art in the modern period, sports history, environmental studies, digital art history, and historical game studies.