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| 008 | 090626s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng | ||
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_aBP166.89 _b.E49 2017 |
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_aEl-Zein, Amira. _916040 |
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_aIslam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn / _cAmira El-Zein. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aSyracuse, N.Y. : _bSyracuse University Press, _c2017. |
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_axxiii, 215 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aContemporary issues in the Middle East | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction -- 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. | |
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_aJinn. _916041 |
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_aIslamic demonology. _916042 |
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_aContemporary issues in the Middle East. _916043 |
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