By sam(SJC)Shayṭān, Jinn, and Related Terms Considered: by Sam
By sam(SJC)Shayṭān, Jinn, and Related Terms Considered: . Introduction The objective of this article is to summarise my reasoning for rendering a number of words in the translation which features in my work The Qur’an: A Complete Revelation the way I do. The subject matter lacks concreteness by definition since we are dealing, at least in part, with unseen forces. My results are, I think, both consistent within the terms I have set myself (of pan- textual integrity), and with the broader text. I do not present involved detail on each of the topics I address here. A description of the logistics and specifics of the type of Satanism practiced by the ruling elites, or academic justifications for other aspects of my presentation would require tomes, and would not add much to achieving my stated purpose; this is not the place to convince people of such things. Rather, I attempt here to place my findings before the reader...