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Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn
- Title
- Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn / Amira El-Zein.
- Author
- El-Zein, Amira.
- Publication
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 215 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary issues in the Middle East
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-503
- ISBN
- 9780815632009 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0815632002 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009026745
- OCLC
- YBP 2009026745
- Author
- El-Zein, Amira.
- Title
- Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn / Amira El-Zein.
- Imprint
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Contemporary issues in the Middle EastContemporary issues in the Middle East.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-503