Robert Lebling
Autor de Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
Sobre El Autor
Robert Lebling has lived and worked as a journalist in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and is the author (with Donna Pepperdine) of Natural Remedies of Arabia. Married with two daughters, he is currently a writer and communications specialist based in Saudi Arabia.
Obras de Robert Lebling
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
author
communications specialist
Miembros
Reseñas
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from… por Robert Lebling
Jinn were more widely found than I thought and in more forms than I could count. Indeed, Lebling gets bogged at times going over the sheer number of Jinn-related folk tales and stories, and he tends to take all references to jinn at face value, including posts on old website forums.
½Interesting review of folklore, but I kept getting tripped up on beliefs/practices described as happening "today" that make reference to materials written in the 1930s—and on how weird it is that "man/mankind" was still being used in 2010 to refer humans/humanity.
A very interesting, scholarly book about everything related to jinn/genies. This book covers the nature of jinn, their origins (before and during Islam), jinn behaviors, types of jinn, historical encounters, locations and jinn in cultural contexts. No "new-agey", fluffy stuff.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 94
- Popularidad
- #199,202
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 8
