Tawfiq Canaan
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Tawfiq Canaan was a pioneering Palestinian physician, medical researcher, ethnographer, and Palestinian nationalist. Born in Beit Jala during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, he served as a medical officer in the Ottoman army during World War I.
Tawfiq Canaan
Looking towards the Mediterranean Sea, a view from within and of the campus of the American University of Beirut (formerly, the Syrian Protestant College) where Canaan studied medicine
The Old City of Jerusalem in the 1900s
The cover of Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine, published in 1922
Talisman
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A talisman is any object ascribed with religious or magical powers intended to protect, heal, or harm individuals for whom they are made. Talismans are often portable objects carried on someone in a variety of ways, but can also be installed permanently in architecture. Talismans are closely linked with amulets, fulfilling many of the same roles, but a key difference is in their form and materiality, with talismans often taking the form of objects which are inscribed with magic texts.
The Talisman of Charlemagne, also a reliquary, said to have been found on his body when his tomb was opened
Christian talisman (Breverl), 18th century
Islamic talisman engraved with a quote from the Quran, 7th or 8th century AD
Polygonal talisman inscribed with micro-calligraphy, 17th century India