Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn [electronic resource] /
Amira El-Zein.
- 1st ed.
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
- xxiii, 215 p.
- 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.