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Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: El-Zein, Amira
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.