Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn [electronic resource] / Amira El-Zein.
El-Zein, Amira.
2009
BP166.89 .E49 2009eb
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Title Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn [electronic resource] / Amira El-Zein.
Author El-Zein, Amira.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780815632009 (cloth alk. paper)
0815632002 (cloth alk. paper)
9780815650706 (e-book)
Publication Details Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xxiii, 215 p.
Call Number BP166.89 .E49 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.2/17
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series Contemporary issues in the Middle East
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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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