Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights

by Edward William Lane

[25] Hence the appellations of "Jinn" and "Jánn."

[26] Tradition from the Prophet, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.

[27] Ibid.

[28] The worship here spoken of is prostration, as an act of obeisance to a superior being.

[29] Ḳur. xviii. 48.

[30] Eṭ-Ṭabaree, quoted in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.

[31] Mir-át ez-Zemán.

[32] Ḳur. vii. 11; and xxxviii. 77.

[33] Mir-át ez-Zemán.

[34] El-Ḥasan El-Baṣree, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. My interpolation of the word "other" is required by his opinion before stated.