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1 online resource |
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Modern Muslim world |
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Modern Muslim world.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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Initiation in the Ruqya and Trips to the Paternal Village -- Ruqya in the Catalan Village -- Treatment of Non-Muslims -- Healing Innovations and the Appropriation of Tradition -- Transnationality and Ruqya -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Healing, Agency, and Life Crisis Among British Pakistani Ruqya Patients -- Jin and Illness-Superstition or a Serious Matter? -- The Ruqya Revival Among South Asian Migrants in the UK -- Ali's Treatment: Purifying the Heart -- Usman's Story -- Breaking Arranged Marriages-Dispelling Kālā Jādū -- Cutting the Network |
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"I just Praise Allah I Still Have My Family": Preserving Love Marriages -- Healing, Hope, and Agency in Anthropology and Islam -- "God Only Gives You One Heart": Urgency in Moral Transformations -- Ambivalence of Agency in Self-cultivation -- "Ruqya Is for Those Who Cannot Pray"-Perceptions of Mental Health and Prayer -- Coexisting Healing Traditions -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 8 Contextualising Female Jinn Possession in Sexual Trauma -- Introduction -- Public Perception of Female Jinn Possession in Egypt -- Insights on jinn Through a Feminist Lens |
| Summary |
This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "demons of Islam." They are regarded as mostly invisible and highly mobile creatures. In a globalized world with manifold forms of forced and voluntary migrations, Jinn are likewise on the move, interfering in the human world and affecting the mental and physical health of Muslims. This continuous challenge has so far been mainly addressed by traditional Muslim health management and by the so-called spiritual medicine or medicine of the Prophet. This book shifts perspective. Its interdisciplinary chapters deal with the transformation of manifold cultural resources by first analyzing the doctrinal and cultural history of Jinn and the treatment of Jinn affliction in Arabic texts and other sources. It then discusses case studies of Muslims and current health management approaches in the Middle East, namely in Egypt and Syria. Finally, it turns to the role of Jinn in a number of migratory settings such as Spain, Denmark, Great Britain and Guantanamo. Annabelle Bottcher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work and Professor at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic culture, health, (forced) migration and war. Birgit Krawietz is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany. Her research focuses on Islamic law and medical ethics, cultural history, body and sports, the Arab Gulf region and Turkey |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
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 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Muslims -- Health and hygiene
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Jinn.
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Spiritual care (Medical care)
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Muslims -- Non-Islamic countries.
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Jinn
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Muslims
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Muslims -- Health and hygiene
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Spiritual care (Medical care)
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Non-Islamic countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Böttcher, Annabelle, editor
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Krawietz, Birgit, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030612474 |
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3030612473 |
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