Islam, Migration and Jinn

Annabelle Böttcher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work and Professor at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic culture, health, (forced) migration and war.Birgit Krawietz is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany. Her research focuses on Islamic law and medical ethics, cultural history, body and sports, the Arab Gulf region and Turkey.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Demonic Beings: The Friends and Foes of Humans.- 3 Tipping the Scales towards and Islamic Spiritual Medicine: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on jinn and Epilepsy.- 4 Existence of Jinn and Jinn Possession as Affirmed by the Holy Sources.- 5 Battered Love in Contemporary Syria: Shi‘i Spiritual Healing with Abu Ahmad.- 6 Ruqya and the Olive Branch: A bricoleur Healer between Catalonia and Morocco.- 7 Healing, Agency and Life Crisis Among British Pakistani Ruqya Patients.- 8 Contextualising Female Jinn Possession in Sexual Trauma.- 9 Jinn and Mental Suffering by Immigrants in Europe: A Review of Literature.- 10 Jinn Beliefs in Western Psychiatry: A Study of Three Cases from a Psychiatric and Cultural Perspective.- 11 Jinn among Muslim Captives in Guantanamo and the “Global War on Terrorism”.