Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn

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Autore principale: El-Zein, Amira
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edizione:1st ed.
Serie:Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
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Sommario:
  • 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.