ISBN:
9783030612474
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Series Statement:
The Modern Muslim World Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.697217
Keywords:
Muslims-Health and hygiene
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 Demonic Beings: The Friends and Foes of Humans -- Introduction -- Debating the Existence of Demonic Beings -- The Jinn and Other Classes of Spiritual Beings -- The Physical Appearance of Jinn -- The Foes of Humans -- The Friends of Humans -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Tipping the Scales Toward an Islamic Spiritual Medicine: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Jinn and Epilepsy -- Introduction -- The Developmental Stages of the Prophet's Medicine -- Features of the Prophet's Medicine -- Jinn and Epilepsy According to Ibn al-Qayyim -- The Fight Against Jinn-Induced Epilepsy -- Healing, Physicians, and Religious Scholars -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 The Physical Reality of Jinn Possession According to Commentaries on the Quran (2:275) -- Preliminary Remark on the Editing and Translation of This Text -- Introduction to Arabic Terminology and Islamic Concepts -- Consensus Among the People of the Sunna and the Community -- Quranic Exegesis of the People of the Sunna and the Community -- Rationalist Dissenters from Among the Mu'tazila -- Final Comment of the Author -- Bibliography -- 5 Battered Love in Contemporary Syria: Shi'i Spiritual Healing with Abu Ahmad -- Introduction: Religion and/as Magic -- Magic and Religion -- Religion and the Shrine Town -- Shaykh Abu Ahmad -- The Place: The Clinic -- The Process: The Diagnosis -- Metaphoric Restoration -- Transgressing Love -- Encountering Jinn -- Bibliography -- 6 Ruqya and the Olive Branch: A Bricoleur Healer Between Catalonia and Morocco -- Introduction -- Ruqya as a Revival in Morocco and the Diaspora -- A Ruqya Bricoleur -- The Case and Its Context -- Initiation in the Ruqya and Trips to the Paternal Village -- Ruqya in the Catalan Village -- Treatment of Non-Muslims.
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