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Ghouls ifrits and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies These also include jinn doppelgangers qar n pl quran the little studied and much feared denizens of the hearts and blood of humans This book seeks out jinn doppelgangers in the Islamic normative tradition philosophy folklore and Sufi literature with special emphasis on Akbarian Sufism Mu y al D n Ibn Arab d 1240 wrote on jinn in substantial detail uncovering the physiognomy culture and behavior of this unseen species Akbarians believed that the good God assigned each human with an evil doppelganger Ibn Arab s reasoning as to why this was the case mirrors his attempts to expound the problem of evil in Islamic religious philosophy No other Sufi Ibn Arab claimed ever managed to get to the heart of this matter before him As well as offering the reader knowledge and safety from evil Ibn Arab s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension predestination and the human relationship to the Divine Bedeviled Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism SUNY series in Islam