Islam, migration and Jinn : spiritual medicine in Muslim health management / Annabelle Böttcher, Birgit Krawietz, editors.
Böttcher, Annabelle, editor.; Krawietz, Birgit, editor.
2021
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Title
Islam, migration and Jinn : spiritual medicine in Muslim health management / Annabelle Böttcher, Birgit Krawietz, editors.
ISBN
9783030612474 (electronic bk.)
3030612473 (electronic bk.)
9783030612467
3030612465
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4 doi
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BP166.72
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.2/66
Summary
This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "demons of Islam." They are regarded as mostly invisible and highly mobile creatures. In a globalized world with manifold forms of forced and voluntary migrations, Jinn are likewise on the move, interfering in the human world and affecting the mental and physical health of Muslims. This continuous challenge has so far been mainly addressed by traditional Muslim health management and by the so-called spiritual medicine or medicine of the Prophet. This book shifts perspective. Its interdisciplinary chapters deal with the transformation of manifold cultural resources by first analyzing the doctrinal and cultural history of Jinn and the treatment of Jinn affliction in Arabic texts and other sources. It then discusses case studies of Muslims and current health management approaches in the Middle East, namely in Egypt and Syria. Finally, it turns to the role of Jinn in a number of migratory settings such as Spain, Denmark, Great Britain and Guantanamo. Annabelle Bottcher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work and Professor at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic culture, health, (forced) migration and war. Birgit Krawietz is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany. Her research focuses on Islamic law and medical ethics, cultural history, body and sports, the Arab Gulf region and Turkey
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Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Bibliography-5 Battered Love in Contemporary Syria: Shi'i Spiritual Healing with Abu Ahmad-Introduction: Religion and/as Magic-Magic and Religion-Religion and the Shrine Town-Shaykh Abu Ahmad-The Place: The Clinic-The Process: The Diagnosis-Metaphoric Restoration-Transgressing Love-Encountering Jinn-Bibliography-6 Ruqya and the Olive Branch: A Bricoleur Healer Between Catalonia and Morocco-Introduction-Ruqya as a Revival in Morocco and the Diaspora-A Ruqya Bricoleur-The Case and Its Context.
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Böttcher, Annabelle, editor.
Krawietz, Birgit, editor.
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Modern Muslim world.
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Intro
Contents
Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Bibliography
2 Demonic Beings: The Friends and Foes of Humans
Introduction
Debating the Existence of Demonic Beings
The Jinn and Other Classes of Spiritual Beings
The Physical Appearance of Jinn
The Foes of Humans
The Friends of Humans
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Tipping the Scales Toward an Islamic Spiritual Medicine: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Jinn and Epilepsy
Introduction
The Developmental Stages of the Prophet's Medicine
Features of the Prophet's Medicine

Jinn and Epilepsy According to Ibn al-Qayyim
The Fight Against Jinn-Induced Epilepsy
Healing, Physicians, and Religious Scholars
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 The Physical Reality of Jinn Possession According to Commentaries on the Quran (2:275)
Preliminary Remark on the Editing and Translation of This Text
Introduction to Arabic Terminology and Islamic Concepts
Consensus Among the People of the Sunna and the Community
Quranic Exegesis of the People of the Sunna and the Community
Rationalist Dissenters from Among the Mu'tazila
Final Comment of the Author

Initiation in the Ruqya and Trips to the Paternal Village
Ruqya in the Catalan Village
Treatment of Non-Muslims
Healing Innovations and the Appropriation of Tradition
Transnationality and Ruqya
Conclusion
Bibliography
7 Healing, Agency, and Life Crisis Among British Pakistani Ruqya Patients
Jin and Illness-Superstition or a Serious Matter?
The Ruqya Revival Among South Asian Migrants in the UK
Ali's Treatment: Purifying the Heart
Usman's Story
Breaking Arranged Marriages-Dispelling Kālā Jādū
Cutting the Network

"I just Praise Allah I Still Have My Family": Preserving Love Marriages
Healing, Hope, and Agency in Anthropology and Islam
"God Only Gives You One Heart": Urgency in Moral Transformations
Ambivalence of Agency in Self-cultivation
"Ruqya Is for Those Who Cannot Pray"-Perceptions of Mental Health and Prayer
Coexisting Healing Traditions
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
8 Contextualising Female Jinn Possession in Sexual Trauma
Introduction
Public Perception of Female Jinn Possession in Egypt
Insights on jinn Through a Feminist Lens

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