Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon: Cross-cultural Studies of Muslim West and the Mediterranean. New lights on research

Keywords: Epigraphy, Islam, Magic, Religion, Talisman.

This article presents a group of metal artifacts, which are usually classified as talismans. In these artifacts we can read epigraphic engraved legends that are related to Koran and other Islamic religious formula. This fact displays the close relationship existing between magic and religion as parts of a cosmology concerning the belief in a supernatural world. This relationship is avoided or denied by the Orthodox Establishment, although it is spread among Al-Andalus population.