The jinn
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the jinn · الجن · jinn · a jinnī · al-jinn · jinnān · jinnī · jānn · the question of the jinn · the righteous among the jinn
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The class of unseen beings that is the whole subject of the book: a question said to be among the oldest and most fixed in men's minds, glossed by the lexicographers as the spiritual beings covered from the senses, and made the object of twenty-one classes of Arab claim and eleven philosophical opinions.
) And *jinn* is used of the spiritual beings (*al-rūḥānīyūn*) that are covered from the senses altogether, as the counterpart of mankind (*al-ins*).
As for *the introduction*, in it we relate what the philosophers of language said in explaining what is meant by *jinn*:
(As for *the second aim*) it is on the views of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn:
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The class of unseen spirits paired with humankind in the quoted scriptural phrase about untouched virgins.
when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The class of invisible beings adduced as an example of what the common folk conceive by shrinking and diminishing conceptions
or the reverse, in shortness and smallness, as in their conceptions of the jinn, or of Yājūj and Mājūj, and the like.