Jinn in popular culture

Genies frequently occur as characters or plot elements in fictional works. They are often divided into different categories, of which the most prominent are marid, genie, and ifrit.

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Genie

Books

Comics

Movies and television

Music

Video games

Others

Jinn in fiction

The Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, who had been bound to an oil lamp, is a jinni familiar to the Western world. A way of summoning jinn was mentioned in The Thousand and One Nights: writing the name of God in Hebrew characters on a knife and drawing a diagram, involving strange symbols and incantations.

Ifrit

Marid

References

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