Comment on Jinn and Tonic by Shalom Staub
This is certainly new and confusing material, and it’s going to be very important to read/watch for details carefully. For instance, Patai’s work refers to Jewish and Arab folk belief and practices in...
View ArticleComment on Blog Post #1 by Shalom Staub
Jake, just to clarify, the period of time that Gafni discussed in his article pre-dated the emergence of Islam. He was discussing Babylonian Jewish interaction with Persian Zoroastrians in the period...
View ArticleComment on Lived Religion by Shalom Staub
Stephan, the whole point of the concept of <em>lived religion</em> is to open up space to examine the very contradictions that you enumerate between the formal doctrines/practices and the...
View ArticleComment on Jnun in the social order by Shalom Staub
Given what you’ve encountered in Grehan and Westermarck, why limit your focus to Arabs and early Arabia?
View ArticleComment on Presence of Jinn by Shalom Staub
FYI, jinn are acknowledged within Islamic tradition, being specifically identified in the Qur’an.
View ArticleComment on Communitas by Shalom Staub
Stephan, the word “communitas” is derived from the Latin and is the singular form as used in English. It looks like you were thinking that “communitas” is a plural form and that you then translated the...
View ArticleComment on Possession and the Taboo by Shalom Staub
It’s always interesting to explore analogies across cultures, but here you seem to be taking your analogy as pseudo-evidence and then drawing inferences back to the original cultural context. Where is...
View ArticleComment on Contradictions with the Shuwwâfât by Maureen Coffey
Though I have been studying Islamic matters now for quite a while, the term shuwwâfât never yet crossed my path (obviously the issue is rather circumvented in any more “orthodox” discussion as you also...
View ArticleComment on The Jinn of Doctrinal Islam Compared to the Spirts of Folk Judaism...
Bismillah The belief in jinn was something common among the arabs before the revelation of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (salAllahua alayhi wa sallam), thus before the revelation the...
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