SHIN BOK-RYONG The author is former emeritus professor of history at Konkuk University. In the West, geomancy has continued to be an important part of geography since Plato. His theory is documented ...

Geomancy, known as ilm al-raml in the Islamic world, is a divination practice involving interpreting markings on the ground . It has historical roots, associated with figures like Prophet Idris ...

Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural opened last month at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. It includes an online exhibition, through which you can also access ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Thoughts of feng shui has a profound impact on theories of traditional Chinese garden. Site selection of traditional Chinese garden, planning and layout of garden, cultivation and layout of garden ...

Timothy Tsu, Geomancy and the Environment in Premodern Taiwan, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1997), pp. 65-77 ...

Geomancy is a medieval Islamic form of divination that, like many other medieval Islamic sciences, became popular in the West in the thirteenth century. I first became interested in geomancy when I ...

The science of Geomancy is the practice of working with the energies of the earth and Geo means earth and mancy is divination. Traditionally geomancy has been used to define beneficial and ...