Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the Encyclopaedia · دائرة المعارف · دائرة المعارف للبستانى
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The encyclopaedia cited without further specification as the source of the Persian account of Jinnistān and of the terrifying figure in which the jinn are depicted.
( hāʼ ) The Persians claim that the jinn dwell in a land called Jinnistān, which their poets call the land of the ʻafārīt and the she-jinn.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
al-Bustānī's encyclopaedia, named as the summarized source of a passage.
[17] (1) Quoted from the Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif of al-Bustānī, in summary.