20th Century · Arabic
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
What the Arabs believed about the jinn and what the philosophers of Islam made of those beliefs — a reformist scholar setting popular cosmology beside philosophical argument, and asking which claims survive examination.
chapters
6 chapters- 01The book's prefaceprose
- 02The purpose of investigating this question and a statement of its importanceprose
- 03Introduction: what the philosophers of language said about the jinnprose
- 04Those of the Arabs and the poets who claimed that they see the ghouls and hear the humming of the jinn, and what they likened to the jinn and the devils, to their limbs and their deedsprose
- 05The sayings of the earlier philosophers of Islam concerning the jinnprose
- 06Conclusion: miscellaneous useful notes on the stray points of this questionprose
in the atlas
fully mappedFigures— 10 of 56
Iblīs · al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī · Abū Yaʻlā Ibn al-Farrāʼ · Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī · God · Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī · Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī · Jibrīl · Muhammad · Muhammad ʻAbduh
Ideas— 10 of 25
Epilepsy · Absence of knowledge is not knowledge of absence · Accident · Analogy and rational proof · Belief in the unseen · Concealment · Condensation and rarefaction · Derivation · Divine science · Dualism of good and evil
Places— 9
Syria · Tadmur · The city · Wabar · Abqar · Abu Qubays · Africa · Damascus · The dwelling-places of the jinn
Groups— 10 of 23
Angels · The jinn · The satans · The common people · Jews · Poets · Quraysh · The ghouls · The philosophers · The prophets
Events— 5
The Jāhilīyah · The jinn's crying out at the mission of Muḥammad · The killing of a jinnī by the Arabs · The luring away of men by the jinn · The publication of the study in al-Muqtabas and its reissue as a book
Objects— 10 of 16
The Qur'an · Kulliyāt of Abū al-Baqāʼ · Asās al-balāghah · Aʻlām al-nubūwah · Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif · Encyclopaedia Britannica · Epistle of al-Fārābī answering questions · Fatḥ al-bārī · Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī's commentary · Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
258 citations · 97 themes · 597 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.
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