... of attempts to rationalize the “unseen” (gheyb)—that is, to grasp phenomena like sorcery and jinn possession in reasoned, scientific, nonsuperstitious terms. The book also explores how metaphysical experimentation is affected by economic liberalization, the dominance of modern technoscience...

... dreaming and claimed that she could pick up nonverbal communications from other people while asleep. She had encountered jinn on more than one occasion. She read widely on all matters related to the metaphysical and the occult, and attributed the greater part of her dedication to metaphysical inquiry...

...This chapter examines the question of whether jinn and sorcery exist. A number of invisible entities and realms beyond the sensible material world are featured in Islamic cosmology, as rooted in the Qur'an and hadith. These include not only God but also angels, jinn, heaven and hell, and news...

.... These anecdotes, it suggests, were indicative of Shaykh Yazdi's contradictory figure as he is portrayed in the popular imagination and official discourse. His eccentricity may have been an asset given that his clients relied on his expertise in manipulating jinn and the powers of sorcery. jinn prayer doʿa...