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===In the West=== | ===In the West=== | ||
In many modern cultures, a Genie is portrayed as a magical being that grants wishes. The earliest of such jinn stories in folklore originate in the book of the ''One Thousand and One Nights''<ref>[http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/arabian/bl-arabian-jinni.htm The Fisherman and the Jinni] - from The Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton in 1850</ref>, but the idea of jinns granting magical acts through black magic to sorcerers was a well-established in pre-Islamic Arabia (and Islam confirmed this). | In many modern cultures, a Genie is portrayed as a magical being that grants wishes. The earliest of such jinn stories in folklore originate in the book of the ''One Thousand and One Nights''<ref>[http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/arabian/bl-arabian-jinni.htm The Fisherman and the Jinni] - from The Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton in 1850</ref>, but the idea of jinns granting magical acts through black magic to sorcerers was a well-established in pre-Islamic Arabia (and Islam confirmed this). | ||
Jinn possessions and exorcisms have been recorded in the UK in recent years<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20357997</ref> as have Jinn removal services (among removing oother Islamic superstitions such as [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Witchcraft and the Occult|Evil Eye affliction, Envy, and Black Magic]]).<ref>https://sincerityruqyah.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwmbqoBhAgEiwACIjzELAiu5OQjaASOL32bHbHAR08Tj9VmHiqHRp4YkFgSMqteYX4L2N62RoC7OQQAvD_BwE</ref><ref>https://www.hijamainlondon.com/jinn-ashiq</ref> | |||
==Relevant Quotations== | ==Relevant Quotations== | ||