jinniyya

English

Noun

jinniyya (plural jinniyyas)

1. Alternative form of jinnia.
   • 1972, Sayyid H[amid] Hurreiz, Ja'aliyyiin Folktales: An Interplay of African, Arabian, and Islamic Elements, Indiana University, →OCLC, page 407:

     She started helping him in his daily work such as herding his camels and finding them whenever they were lost. For six months he did not wish to see or meet anyone but the jinniyya. In the end the Muslim priest wrote him a protective charm to get rid of her, and he started socializing with people again.

   • 1973, Vincent Crapanzano, The Ḥamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry, Berkeley, Calif., […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 224:

     It should be pointed out, however, that women rarely slash their heads. The jinniyyas appear to function as supporting doubles for them. They are capable, however, of turning on their female followers, and may serve as an externalized conscience.

   • 1985, Jerome W[right] Clinton, “Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights: The Tale of Shahriyar and Shahrized”, in Studia Islamica, volume 33, →ISSN, page 122:

     The jinniyya wishes to punish them with death, which indeed they deserve by the standards of strict justice, even though they are her husband’s brothers.

   • 1999, Eva Sallis, Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the Thousand and One Nights (Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures), Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     Badīʿa al-Jamāl, a jinniyya, refuses to marry the hero on the grounds that humans are unfaithful.

   • 2007, Richard van Leeuwen, The Thousand and One Nights: Space, Travel and Transformation (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures; 15)‎^[1], Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

     Finally, there is the group of jinniyyas who travel freely without any form of custody.