Spirits and Demons in Arabia

A. S. Tritton

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Spirits and Demons in Arabia

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A. S. Tritton

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The Arabs believed in the existence of beings to which they gave commonly the generic name “djinn”. For convenience we may call them spirits. Muḥammad carried these ideas over into Islam where theologians developed and systematized them. These Muslim ideas are of no interest to the student of folk-lore unless it can be shown that they contain older material.

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Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , October 1934 , pp. 715 - 727

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