Genie

A genie is the anglicized word for jinni. In Semitic and Arab mythology and Islamic religion, a jinni (also " jinni", "djinni", djinn", or "djini"), a member of the jinn, a race of spirits. For the ancient Semites they were spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn; they could make themselves invisible or change shape into animals at will; these spirits were commonly made responsible for diseases and for the manias of some lunatics who claimed that they were tormented by the jinn. The Arabs believed that the jinn were spirits of fire, although sometimes they associated them with succubi, demons in the forms of beautiful women, who visited men by night to copulate with them until they were exhausted, drawing energy from them similarly to how vampires suck blood. In Islam, the jinn are creatures with free will, made of smokeless fire by Allah, much in the same way humans were made of earth. In Islam-associated mythology, the jinn were said to be controllable by magicallyally binding them to objects, as Sulayman ("Solomon" in most biblical transliterations) famously did; the Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin was such a jinni, bound to an oil lamp, See also: Ifrit

References

\nal-Ashqar, Dr. Umar Sulaiman. The World of the Jinn and Devils. Boulder, CO: Al-Basheer Company for Publications and Translations. 1998. \n\n Category:Islamic mythology