A very exciting development: the announcement of a new scholarly 
association and journal dedicated to the occult sciences in Islamicate 
world. I was urged to distribute this widely when contacted about it by:

Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad
Asst. Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
The American University in Cairo
HUSS Building C2151
+20.2.2615.1786
www.aucegypt.edu
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Here's the website: http://www.occultaislamica.com/

And here's the text from their 'About' page:

Societas Occulta Islamica is an academic society devoted to the study of 
the arcana and esoterica of Islamicate Civilization. The obscure theurgy 
associated with the latter is grounded in the most recondite of oriental 
doctrines. It is for the thorough scholarly investigation of these 
theurgic technologies and doctrines that the Societas Occulta Islamica 
was founded. To this end the Societas Occulta Islamica will soon be 
launching its peer-reviewed electronic journal, Studia Occulta Islamica. 
Papers from researchers in Islamic studies as well as those with 
interdisciplinary interests are most welcome. For full particulars 
please refer to the ‘Call for Papers’. The inaugural issue of Studia 
Occulta Islamica will be devoted to the premier Occult Sage of 
Islamicate Civilization, Shihab al-Din Abu al-’Abbas Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn 
Yusuf al-Qurashi al-Buni (d. 622 H / 1225 CE at Cairo) and his 
formidable oeuvre, which has been aptly termed the ‘Corpus Bunianum’ by 
Jan Just Wikam. Without doubt the most distinguished work of the Corpus 
Bunianum is the celebrated Shams al-Ma’arif al-Kubra (The Great Sun of 
Knowledge) which will be the principal work of focus in the first issue 
of Studia Occulta Islamica. Future numbers of the journal will 
investigate the Divine Names, ‘Ilm al-Jafr, Astrology, Alchemy, ‘Magic 
Squares’, et cetera…

Other activities of the Societas include occasional lectures of which 
the first will be on 21 November 2011 at the American University in 
Cairo under the sponsorship of its Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies 
Unit of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Civilizations.

A Bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the Occult Sciences 
is under preparation and will be periodically updated. The latest 
version of the latter at the time of publication will be included in the 
initial number of Studia Occulta Islamica.

Finally, a series of occasional briefs dubbed Manazil and a series of 
monographs dubbed Buruj will also be issued for download.

For general inquiries, please email info [at] occultaislamica [dot] com.

- Noah
p.s. Happy Thanksgiving to the USA'ians on the list and to any others 
who have adopted their exotic customs...

-- 
Noah Gardiner
Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor