Shooting From The Hip - 47 - I Dream Of Jeannie (JINN)

I Dream of Jeannie:
is an American fantasy sitcom television series, creator Sidney Sheldon -starring Barbara Eden as a beautiful but guileless 2,000-year-old genie & Larry Hagman as an astronaut with whom she falls in love & eventually marries

JINN -(Arabian, Muslim mythology) supernatural creatures: intelligent spirits of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human & animal forms & to possess humans

-is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root JNN (Arabic: jann) -primary meaning is 'to hide' or 'to adapt': Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, 'beings that are concealed from the senses'

JINN has become part of western mythology -according to Islamic belief, jinn are real creatures that form a world other than that of mankind, capable of causing physical & mental harm to human beings

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film

One Thousand & One Nights: a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, 1st English-language edition (1706–1721)

As of 2024: estimates are over 2.03 billion Muslims in the world, making Islam the 2nd largest religion after Christianity. Muslims are found in every region of the world, with the largest concentration of Muslims living in the Asia-Pacific region.

JINN, appear 29 separate times In the Quran, in the 72nd Chapter "al-jin"(the Jinn) (Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to Muhammad over a period of 23 years, the 1st revelation at Mount Hira - after the Prophet's death, his successors compiled these divine revelations in a manuscript - Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed from God to Muhammad when he was 40 - through the angel Gabriel in the West Arabian towns Mecca & Medina beginning in 610 & ending with Muhammad's death in 632 ce)

Jinn are subject to God's will, they also await judgement in the after life
Jinn are made up of distinct groups, separate tribes
entities like the JINN appear all throughout the world
name refers to JINN individually & collectively; in groups
benevolent or evil trickster, waged war among themselves
they can be summoned & be bound by mystics, magic user
never seen as immortal or invincible, still required to eat, sleep, drink
pre-islamic JINN were seen as being more as deities & worshipped
common folklore, jinn can assume human or animal form & become invisible
said to dwell in all inanimate objects- stones, trees, ruins - underneath the earth, in the air, in fire
-they possess the bodily needs of human beings & can even be killed, but they are free from all physical restraints
they are said to have inhabited the Earth before the creation of man
allegedly God sent the Angels to purge the JINN because they became corrupt, violent, greedy: most were killed, survivors: exiled from Earth