Islam, Migration and Jinn: Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management PDF
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THE MODERN MUSLIM WORLD Islam, Migration and Jinn Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management Edited by Annabelle Böttcher Birgit Krawietz The Modern Muslim World Series Editor Dietrich Jung Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark The modern Muslim world is an integral part of global society. In tran- scending the confines of area studies, this series encompasses schol- arly work on political, economic, and cultural issues in modern Muslim history, taking a global perspective. Focusing on the period from the early nineteenth century to the present, it combines studies of Muslim majority regions, such as the Middle East and in Africa and Asia, with the analysis of Muslim minority communities in Europe and the Amer- icas. Emphasizing the global connectedness of Muslims, the series seeks to promote and encourage the understanding of contemporary Muslim life in a comparative perspective and as an inseparable part of modern globality. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14429 · Annabelle Böttcher Birgit Krawietz Editors Islam, Migration and Jinn Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management Editors Annabelle Böttcher Birgit Krawietz Syddansk Universitet Institut für Islamwissenschaft Center for Modern Middle East Freie Universität Berlin and Muslim Studies Berlin, Germany Odense, Denmark The Modern Muslim World ISBN 978-3-030-61246-7 ISBN 978-3-030-61247-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: © Daniel Schoenen/Alamy Stock Foto This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Contents 1 Introduction 1 Annabelle Böttcher and Birgit Krawietz 2 Demonic Beings: The Friends and Foes of Humans 17 Tobias Nünlist 3 Tipping the Scales Toward an Islamic Spiritual Medicine: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Jinn and Epilepsy 45 Felix Wessel 4 The Physical Reality of Jinn Possession According to Commentaries on the Quran (2:275) 65 Mudhi al-Shimmari 5 Battered Love in Contemporary Syria: Shi‘i Spiritual Healing with Abu Ahmad 77 Edith Szanto 6 Ruqya and the Olive Branch: A Bricoleur Healer Between Catalonia and Morocco 99 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste v vi CONTENTS 7 Healing, Agency, and Life Crisis Among British Pakistani Ruqya Patients 121 Andreas Gadeberg Nielsen 8 Contextualising Female Jinn Possession in Sexual Trauma 151 Birte Spreckelsen 9 Jinn and Mental Suffering by Migrants in Europe: A Review of Literature 163 Sophie Bärtlein and Nina Nissen 10 Jinn Beliefs in Western Psychiatry: A Study of Three Cases from a Psychiatric and Cultural Perspective 185 Maria Galsgaard 11 Jinn Among Muslim Captives in Guantanamo and the “Global War on Terrorism” 215 Annabelle Böttcher Index 241 Contributors Mudhi al-Shimmari Center for Dawa and Irshad, Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Sophie Bärtlein Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Annabelle Böttcher Syddansk Universitet, Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies, Odense, Denmark Maria Galsgaard Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric Centre Ballerup, Ballerup, Denmark Birgit Krawietz Institut für Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste Departament d’Antropologia Social i Cultural, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain Andreas Gadeberg Nielsen Aarhus, Denmark Nina Nissen REHPA—Danish Knowledge Centre for Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, Region of Southern Denmark and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Tobias Nünlist Asien-Orient Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland vii viii CONTRIBUTORS Birte Spreckelsen Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Edith Szanto Department of Religious Studies, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Felix Wessel Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany List of Tables Table 9.1 Included literature 167 Table 10.1 Patients’ attribution of phenomena to spirits 197 Table 10.2 Anthropological and psychiatric findings 201 ix
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