Glossary Terms - Jinn

Glossary Terms - Jinn

Jinn are daemonic spirits and beings and are mentioned by the Quran. Berkey references jinn as an important element of pre-Islamic Arabia, saying: “The Arabs, at least as much as inhabitance of other regions of the Near East, lived in a world saturated with the supernatural, which took for them the form of a multitudinous and ubiquitous spirits (jinn) as well as gods.” Jinn give us insight into pre-Islamic belief, important context for the Islamic world at large, and the continued belief in jinn into the age of Islam illustrates the continued belief in the supernatural. As jinn are am important part of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, I have included this entry alongside it in part three.

Berkey. Jayyusi.

Arabic