Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn (Record no. 235819)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01812nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 297.2/17 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | El-Zein, Amira. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Islam, Arabs, and the intelligent world of the jinn |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Syracuse, N.Y. : |
| Name of publisher | Syracuse University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxiii, 215 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Contemporary issues in the Middle East |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Jinn. |
| Topical Term | Islamic demonology. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10534255 |
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