أصل مفهوم تلبس الجان في بدن الإنسان في الثقافة الإسلامية

Abstract EN

Genie Inside Human Body (GIHB) concept was in circulation among the people since many centuries before the advent of Islam.

This concept was consolidated and was linked by some people with the Islamic culture and even considered as part of the Shari’a (Islamic teaching).

Physicians faced – till now- group of people who insist that epilepsy and other psychiatric and mental disorders are just GIHB, which needs ways to eliminate Genie by many methods and beating the patient is the commonest method.

In this study, we try to recognize and discuss the solid evidences from the Shari’a and review old and new different doctrinal Islamic views from several respected resources.

The study concluded that the concept of GIHB is purely a legacy of popular culture and subsequently added to the Islamic heritage in the late Islamic centuries, which calls for a firm stand to get rid of it.