jinni

Example Sentences

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He pleaded with Said to remove a malevolent jinni, or spirit, that had entered his life.

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Breaking briefly from his verse, he said, “You see now, the jinni is coming out.”

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Throughout much of the Islamic world, a jinni, or genie as it is sometimes spelled, is considered a very real spiritual phenomenon.

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Said Mohammed turns to oils, spices and incantations when he is called on to hunt down and expel a jinni that is causing harm to humans. 

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Like a jinni of air come to bring us all to our knees.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir