@Louis P. Boog discussions at WP:RSN and WP:NORN notice boards are done. After taking those into account whether you have updated your intended highlighted changes in this sandbox and whether those are ready for taking to RfC? If so form and discuss neutral questions for the same. Bookku (talk) 10:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1) Please help yourself in updating Publisher and Author brief as I did in First subsection below.
2) As per feed back at WP:RSN (archive link) use Intercultural Press as publisher name (they being first publisher and RS instead of 'Hachette Livre' both at your sand box and also below RfC preparation.
3) Check for accuracy of following thoroughly and update as necessary.
4) Search and update any more Academic sources, if possible once again.
Jinn have been called "an integral part" of the Muslim tradition[1] or faith,[2] "completely accepted" in official Islam;[3]
prominently featured in folklore, but also taken "quite seriously" by both medieval and modern Muslim scholars,[4] who "worked out" the consequences implied by their existence -- legal status, the possible relations between them and mankind, especially in questions of marriage and property.[3]
Ref-list and Author brief for Proposed additions of text 1
Author brief: Mark A. Caudill is a 15-year U.S. Foreign Service officer who served in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1999 to 2002. Currently he is Vice Consul, U.S. Consulate General, Istanbul, Turkey.
Author brief: William E. Burns . Visiting and Part-Time Faculty, Department of History, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
William Burns is a historian who lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area with interests in the early modern world and the history of science. ref: columbian.gwu.edu
Author brief: Richard Bonney :University of Leicester | LE · School of Historical Studies
Proposed additions of text 2
In section "Belief":
* Present sentence in the article for consideration here
Belief in jinn is not included among the six articles of Islamic faith, as belief in angels is. Nontheless, many Muslim scholars, including the Hanbalī scholar ibn Taymiyya and the Ẓāhirī scholar ibn Hazm, believe they are essential to the Islamic faith, since they are mentioned in the Quran.
This above present sentence is supported in the article by Ref: Nünlist, Tobias. Dämonenglaube Im Islam. Germany, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, p.33.
Tobias Nünlist is independent RS acceptable to both side referring to two scholars Hanbalī, ibn Taymiyya in above sentence.There is no disagreement up til here.
Proposed addition in above sentence A): "..the theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi,.."; Ref T. Nünlist (2015) Dämonenglaube im Islam
Openly expressing of doubt about the existence of j̲inn was not common even amidst the Muʿtazila; and among the erstwhile philosophers, al-Fārābī also, tried to skip the question with vague definitions. Ibn Sīnā was an outlier-- he outrightly rejected their existence.[1]
In present-day Islam, only a "small number" believes that jinn in the Quran should be understood symbolically instead of literally.[2]
(In 1995 a Professor Nasr Abu Zayd was accused of blaspheme and apostasy, in part for his alleged disbelief in Jinn.[3] He left Egypt for exile after a joint statement calling for his killing was issued by a group of professors at al-Azhar University, the "theological centre of Egypt".)[4][5]
^Kermani, Navid (2004). "From revelation to interpretation: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and the Literary study of the Qur'an". In Taji-Farouki, Suha (ed.). Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an(PDF). Oxford University Press. p. 170.
Authors and researchers of parts of the Muslim world have compared belief in jinn to that of belief in angels. Writing about Muslims in South Asia. Sarah E. Lamb and Diane P. Mines have called the belief a primary articles of faith in Islam — so that disbelief in them would be heretical;[1]
Philip Hermans writes that belief in jinn in Morocco is "very much alive" and part of Islamic dogma.[2]
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References
^Sarah Lamb; Diane P. Mines, eds. (2010). Everyday Life in South Asia. Indiana University Press. p. 278. ISBN9780253354730. Belief in the existence of jinn is considered equivalent to belief in the existence of angels, one of the primary articles of faith in Islam, and consequently, to disbelieve in them would be heretical.