{"id":1588,"date":"2022-04-27T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/islamstudies\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=1588"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:43:18","slug":"matthew-melvin-koushki","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/islamstudies\/people\/matthew-melvin-koushki\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Melvin-Koushki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sc.academia.edu\/MatthewMelvinKoushki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Matthew Melvin-Koushki<\/a> is Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a philological focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the broader Persianate world to the nineteenth century, and a disciplinary focus on history of science, history of philosophy and history of the book. His several forthcoming books include <em>The Occult Science of Empire in Aqquyunlu-Safavid Iran: Two Shirazi Lettrists and Their Manuals of Magic<\/em>, and he is co-editor of the volumes <em>Islamicate Occultism: New Perspectives<\/em> (2017) and <em>Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice<\/em> (2020). He is also cofounder of the international working group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamicoccult.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamic Occult Studies on the Rise<\/a> (IOSOTR), which showcases the newest work in this now burgeoning interdisciplinary field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[50],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Melvin-Koushki - 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