This chapter introduces a few types of amulets and talismans produced by Ṣūfīs or appealing to Ṣūfī saints for help and protection. Particular attention is given to a number of paper talismans produced between the eleventh/seventeenth and thirteenth/nineteenth centuries and containing a range of holy texts, diagrams, and sacred images.
Keywords:
talismanic scrolls
,protection
,shaykh
,talismans
,baraka
,seals
,diagrams
,intercession
,invocation
,healing
,amulets
