Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn [electronic resource] / Amira El-Zein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary issues in the Middle EastPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 215 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 297.2/17 22
LOC classification:
  • BP166.89 .E49 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- The poetics of the invisible : Muslim imagination and the jinn -- Correspondences between jinn and humans -- Beings of light and of fire -- Divination, revelation, and the jinn -- Magic, possession, diseases, and the jinn -- Jinn in animal shapes -- Love between humans and jinn -- Jinn inspiring poets -- Conclusion: The sentience of inside out/outside in -- Appendix: The different classes of the jinn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The poetics of the invisible : Muslim imagination and the jinn -- Correspondences between jinn and humans -- Beings of light and of fire -- Divination, revelation, and the jinn -- Magic, possession, diseases, and the jinn -- Jinn in animal shapes -- Love between humans and jinn -- Jinn inspiring poets -- Conclusion: The sentience of inside out/outside in -- Appendix: The different classes of the jinn.

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