Jinn Sorcery by Rain Al-Alim
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This is a slim manual compiling techniques from medieval Arabic grimoires for summoning, binding, and consorting with Jinn. It includes sundry ritual techniques some of which will be familiar to students of Western grimoires (telesmata, evocations with "barbarous names", banishments, etc.), but also includes some new (to me) ritual methods, such as the "mandal" which involves scrying using oil mixed with ink and poured into the palm.
In addition to technical interest, the book is also compelling from a comparative standpoint. The book highlights that Jinn occupy a very different theological space in Islam and Arabic sorcery than angels and demons occupy in Christian traditions and Western grimoires. Jinn have their own agency and their own religious life, and so can choose to be pious or wicked, just like we can. A Jinni or Jinnaya is not a personification of divine will or a rebel against it. They're simply a member of another race of subtler creatures, neither intrinsically good nor evil, that must make their own peace with deity. This leads to some very interesting workings that have no real parallel in the Western grimoire tradition.
One particularly salacious example: there are multiple rites that purport to secure the operant a marriage to a Jinnaya, after which he (the operant is assumed to be male) will forever be unable to lie with mortal women. To my knowledge, there is nothing comparable in the Western grimoires. Certainly the Goetic demons can be commanded to cause other mortals to fall in love with you, or to make other mortals "show themselves" before you. Succubi or incubi might be conjured to consort with an operant (at peril of their souls), but a rite to compel a demon to marry a mortal?
Angels and demons are beings of pure will, either benign or malign, on an entirely different plane of agency than we are. The idea of marrying one seems almost like a category error. But because Jinn live lives much as we do, they can be courted and married just as we might court or marry another person. The idea has strong parallels in various ancient pagan traditions where gods or supra-human creatures routinely took mortal spouses, and shows a fascinating contrast.
Recommended for fans of medieval magickal traditions.