Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn
/ Amira El-Zein.
1st ed.
Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2009.
xxiii, 215 p. ;
24 cm.
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.