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Author El-Zein, Amira.
Title Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn / Amira El-Zein.
Publication Info Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.


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Descript xxiii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780815632009
0815632002
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Author El-Zein, Amira.
Series Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Subject Jinn.
Islamic demonology.
Descript xxiii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780815632009
0815632002
Author El-Zein, Amira.
Series Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Subject Jinn.
Islamic demonology.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 3rd Floor  BP166.89 .E49 2009  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Jinn.
Islamic demonology.
Descript xxiii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780815632009
0815632002
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