Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Boston/Leiden: Brill 2017. ISBN 9789004338531.

Y. T. Langermann

doi:10.1163/15700593-01802006

Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Boston/Leiden: Brill 2017. ISBN 9789004338531.

Y. T. Langermann

Department of Arabic

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The surge in interest in demons, the fascination with magic and the supernatural, and the overselling of their importance as a way of compensating for the “positivist” denigration of such, has outstripped the ability of academia to produce a satisfactorily cohesive approach …

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	290-293
Number of pages	4
Journal	Aries
Volume	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-01802006
State	Published - 2018

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