Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert Lebling and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world. According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Believed in by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and from all faiths, jinn have played a particularly central role in the literature, culture and belief systems of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Legends of the Fire Spirits explores through time and across nations the enduring phenomenon of the jinn. From North Africa to Central Asia, from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, this riveting, often chilling, yet reasoned book draws on ancient testimonies, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist's reports and traveller's tales to explore the different types of jinn, their behaviour, society, culture and long history of contact with humankind. It documents their links with famous figures in history such as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and illustrates the varied and vivid portrayals of jinn in world literature. In essence, Legends of the Fire Spirits demonstrates the colourful diversity of human culture and the durability of faith and is a magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world.

Download or read book The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine written by Donald Barthelme and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.

Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert Lebling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An energy, a pulse form of quantum physics perhaps, alive at the margins of sleep or madness, and more often in the whispering of a single unwelcome thought.' The Economist According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they cannot be seen, jinn are said to be strangely human-like - marrying, bearing children, forming communities and tribes, eating, sleeping, playing and facing judgement like any other human. They are ever-present partners in the human experience, causing endless mischief, providing amazing services and sometimes inducing sheer terror. Believed in by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and from all faiths, jinn have played a particularly central role in the literature, culture and belief systems of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Legends of the Fire Spirits explores through time and across nations the enduring phenomenon of the jinn. From North Africa to Central Asia, from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, this riveting, often chilling, yet reasoned book draws on long-forgotten ancient testimonies, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist's reports and traveller's tales to explore the different types of jinn, their behaviour, society, culture and long history of contact with humankind. It documents their links with famous figures in history such as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and illustrates the varied and vivid portrayals of jinn in world literature. In essence Legends of the Fire Spirits demonstrates the colourful diversity of human culture and the durability of faith and is a magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world.

Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert W. Lebling and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of clay; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names-demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they cannot always be seen, jinn are said to be strangely human-like-marrying, bearing children, forming communities and tribes, eating, sleeping, playing and facing judgment like any other human. They are ever-present partners in the human experience, causing endless mischief, providing amazing services and sometimes inducing sheer terror.

Download or read book Fire Djinn written by Linda Davies and published by Jerboa Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure fiction. Fantasy fiction. The Prince of Atlantis is back. His powers are growing but so is the threat. Finn Kennedy, his cousin Georgina and their friend Fred are camping at night in the deserts of Dubai when an unseen Voice reveals to them a horrific vision foretelling the end of the world. The Voice cries out for Lightfighters to enter the battle and to free him. Finn, Fred and Georgie, Lightfighters all of them, cannot turn away. Once more they leave their normal lives behind to embark upon an adventure that takes them beyond the boundaries of this world into the terrifying kingdom of the Dark Fire Djinn.

Download or read book Spell On Fire written by Renee George and published by Barkside of the Moon Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a forty-something, newly divorced, single mom comes with its challenges. Finding out I’m a witch is just another one of them. As a new practitioner of tru-craft, I’ve been told that every witch is called to a single element, and they are sent down one of two paths, the Fade or the Bright. Of course, every rule has an exception, and in this case, it’s me. My grimoire has revealed a new element I have to learn, and I am walking the ditch between the two paths. I’m going to need the help of a grouchy gnome, a cuddly imp, a fiery ifrit, and a hottie druid to keep me from burning down my life and everything around it. My new reality is nature's cruel midlife trick. Surviving Earth magic without blowing up my entire world has been hard enough. If I don’t master Fire, I’ll go down in flames. Literally.

Download or read book The Book of Smokeless Fire written by S Ben Qayin and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work that is being presented in "The Book of Smokeless Fire" is based on a very little known and overlooked Solomonic text simply known as "Miscelaneo de Salomon," which amazingly mirrors that of Lovecraft's, "Necronomicon" both in content and history.

Download or read book SIHR DJINN AFARIT AND HOW TO SUMMON THEM 3rd Edition written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIHR DJINN AFARIT AND HOW TO SUMMON THEM: The Banned Book Of Sorcery, Spells, Magic and Witchcraft. 3rd Edition. Published by Times Square Press, New York. "This is a heavy-duty Kitab (Book) on Sihr (Magic, Witchcraft, Sorcery), Djinns, Afarit, Kitabaat (Magical writings), and Talasem (Talismans). As a practitioner of Ilmu Al Sihr, you will have the rare and unprecedented opportunity to polish and perfect your practice. As a novice and a researcher, you will learn quite a lot about all these subjects which were never before discussed and explained in any other language than in Arabic. As you already know, Djinns, Afarit and Sihr originated in the ancient Middle East, Arab Peninsula and North Africa, and the Saher (Magician, Sorcerer) used only Arabic, and the secret languages of Al-Arwaah (Spirits) and "Etheric Entities" to summon multiple and various categories of Spirits and entities which remained shrouded in absolute secrecy for centuries." Honorable Ulema Master Farid Tayara.

Download or read book The Fire Wish written by Amber Lough and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jinni. A princess. And the wish that changes everything. . . . Beautifully written and accessible fantasy for fans of Tamora Pierce, Rachel Hartman, and Laini Taylor. In this romantic and evocative fantasy, Najwa is a jinni, training to be a spy in the war against the humans. Zayele is a human on her way to marry a prince of Baghdad—which she’ll do anything to avoid. So she captures Najwa and makes a wish. With a rush of smoke and fire, they fall apart and re-form—as each other. A jinni and a human, trading lives. Both girls must play their parts among enemies who would kill them if the deception were ever discovered—enemies including the young men Najwa and Zayele are just discovering they might love.

Download or read book Practical Jinn Magick written by Corwin Hargrove and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jinn Magick is simple to execute, and the results can be some of the best you will find in all occultism. Much has been written about The Fire Spirits, known as the Jinn (or Djinn), but books of practical Jinn Magick are rare. Hardly any exist, and those that do are often a disappointment.This book reveals a practical method for calling on the Jinn and receiving a response.There are forty-two rituals, and the magick can help with influence and passion or destruction and transformation.The rituals deal with reputation and the souring of love. Some rituals affect competition, uncover flaws, weaken others, improve your discipline or make somebody else burn out.Where you feel stuck, you can find release, and there are ways to create more abundance or make somebody else lose what they have.Rituals can create obsessive thoughts in others and make people see the best in you or the worst in another. They can help you seduce or cause somebody to be sexually disgusted by another person.Financial magick works to increase what you have and can make people appreciate your work or make others lose what money they have.There's great potential if you use your imagination. The magick can be subtle and delicate or life-changing and devastating, according to your wish.Most of the rituals can be modified and are directed at clear, practical results. The Jinn are neither angels or demons, but fire spirits, and they execute your magickal wishes with immense power. The magick may only work half the time, but when it does, it works with alarming intensity.The book is expensive, but that's because there's decades of research in here and these secrets should not be given to those who don't value them. Pay a fair price, do the work well, and you will get what you want.

Download or read book The Djinn in the Nightingale s Eye written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World

Download or read book Islam Arabs and the Intelligent World of the Jinn written by Amira El-Zein and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn, Amira El-Zein explores the integral role these mythological figures play, revealing that the concept of jinn is fundamental to understanding Muslim culture and tradition.

Download or read book The Vengeful Djinn written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you fear one thing in life, fear the djinn. This groundbreaking book presents the findings of Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Philip J. Imbrogno's investigation into the powerful and mysterious interdimensional beings known as djinn or genies. It reveals what the djinn are, where they can be found—and their hidden agenda against the human race. Working with material compiled from a variety of sources—including their own case files, Middle Eastern lore, the Qur'an, teachings of Islamic scholars, and the latest theories in quantum physics—the authors explore the relationship between the djinn, demons, fairies, shadow people, and extraterrestrials. They discuss the military's interest in these clandestine beings, offer eyewitness accounts of modern human encounters with the djinn, and reveal the location of interdimensional entry points in North America.

Download or read book ROSTER OF SPIRITS DEMONS DJINN AFARIT AND GHOSTS YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH written by Maximillien de Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROSTER OF SPIRITS, DEMONS, DJINN, AFARIT, AND GHOSTS YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH. Séances and Discussions with the Greatest Middle Eastern Spirit-mediums of all Time. 4th Edition. 320 PAGES. Published by Times Square Press New York. Any person can contact Djinn, Afarit, Spirits, and Arwaah. You don't need to be a psychic, a medium or a channeler to summon and/or to communicate with these entities and multidimensional creatures, for no mediumistic abilities or psychic "powers" are required. Simply, ●1-Learn who are these entities. They are listed in the roster provided in this book. ●2-Learn the perfect timing to reach them. (Refer to my previous books on the subject). ●3-Learn the words, phrases and sentences you must use to call upon them. It is so easy to do so by consulting this book.

Download or read book Djinnology written by Seema Yasmin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and spine-tingling guide to the world of djinn. Lurking in the corner of your living room, perhaps reading this sentence over your shoulder right now, is an often invisible creature that is everywhere and nowhere. Djinn are the cool breezes in warm rooms, the materializations of your deepest desires, the monsters waiting beneath your bed. They have appeared in the stories of Muslim communities across time and throughout the world, but this is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to these beguiling creatures. Emmy Award–winning journalist Seema Yasmin and Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Fahmida Azim invite readers into the world of djinn, whether they are practicing Muslims steeped in the stories from childhood or are simply curious about Islamic culture and international folklore. Cultural and religious context, poetic reflections, and a collection of spooky tales are all nestled within a compelling narrative about the mysterious Dr. N, a contemporary scientist discovering the djinn realm. This book shines a light on a long-overlooked yet dazzlingly rich subject. INCLUSIVE VISION OF ISLAMIC LORE: Written by two progressive Muslim women, this book welcomes readers with diverse relationships to Islam. Yasmin and Azim blend a deep respect for and knowledge of the lore with a fresh perspective. The book incorporates stories from a Muslim diaspora that stretches from Paris to New Jersey and from Durban to Shanghai, showcasing a kaleidoscopic variety of djinn legends. DELUXE TOME: In this richly illustrated volume, Fahmida Azim's expressive and sensitive art captures the mysterious nature of djinn. A centerpiece map shows the djinn realm overlaid over our own world, and the book itself is embellished with shimmering accents and a striking dyed page edge. PERFECT FOR MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE FANS: This is the perfect addition to any collection of world mythology. Anyone who enjoys learning about cultures through their folklore will relish the chance to explore the realm of the djinn. Perfect for: Folklore and mythology lovers Muslims seeking to celebrate their heritage Anyone interested in Islamic history and culture Spooky story buffs Fans of illustrated books Fans of mock-memoir fantasy novels like A Natural History of Dragons

Download or read book The Candle and the Flame written by Nafiza Azad and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azad's debut YA fantasy is set in a city along the Silk Road that is a refuge for those of all faiths, where a young woman is threatened by the war between two clans of powerful djinn. Fatima lives in the city of Noor, a thriving stop along the Silk Road. There the music of myriad languages fills the air, and people of all faiths weave their lives together. However, the city bears scars of its recent past, when the chaotic tribe of Shayateen djinn slaughtered its entire population -- except for Fatima and two other humans. Now ruled by a new maharajah, Noor is protected from the Shayateen by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, and by their commander, Zulfikar.But when one of the most potent of the Ifrit dies, Fatima is changed in ways she cannot fathom, ways that scare even those who love her. Oud in hand, Fatima is drawn into the intrigues of the maharajah and his sister, the affairs of Zulfikar and the djinn, and the dangers of a magical battlefield.In this William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist novel, Nafiza Azad weaves an immersive tale of magic and the importance of names; fiercely independent women; and, perhaps most importantly, the work for harmony within a city of a thousand cultures and cadences.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Paganism written by Carl McColman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a complete idiot's guide to understanding paganism and examines the basic principles of shamanism, druidism, and Wicca as well as the fundamentals of meditation, magic, divination, and spiritual healing.