Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn
By: Amira El-Zein.
Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815632009
Subjects: Jinn; Islamic demonology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The poetics of the invisible: Muslim imagination and the jinn; title: Correspondences between jinn and humans; title: Beings of light and of fire; title: Divination, revelation, and the jinn; title: Magic, possession, diseases, and the jinn; title: Jinn in animal shapes; title: Love between humans and jinn; title: Jinn inspiring poets; title: Conclusion: The sentience of inside out/outside in; title: Appendix: The different classes of the jinn.