Paper short abstract:

Our interest with this communication will be to open the debate on how Andalusian Islamic authors understood the stories and objects from Ancient Egypt, their means and aims with and beyond their works and writings on magic.

Paper long abstract:

Modern archeology opened up an invaluable area of material and immaterial culture with the take of the pharaonic wealth. But the Egyptian knowledge immortalized in hieroglyphics and statues was somehow already known during the Islamic expansion. One of the most remarkable Medieval Islamic works on magic was produced in al-Andalus, which testifies the importance of the findings of the Muslim travellers, and the transfer of knowledge between Egypt and the Peninsula. The way in which this Islamic pre-archaelogy was transformed into Andalusian works on magic, shapes one of the most intriguing episodes in Islamic and Arabic-Andalusian sciences. With our presentation we want to offer a view on the ways Egyptian Hermetism could have influenced our Andalusian

authors. Scholar as well as earth-bound paths will be taken into consideration, pious as well as secular approaches to (Egyptian) Knowledge at the time, will be considered.