Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn / Amira El-Zein.
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| Superior document: | Contemporary issues in the Middle East |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 215 p. |
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Table of 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.