It is commonly believed that there are five hierarchical types of jinn, the Marid, the Ifrit, the Shaitan, the Jinn and the Jann. The Ifrit — the kind of jinn that appears in Neil Gaiman’s ...

The great secrets of Jinn - 1. Jinn or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran (the 72nd sura is ...

He gives the jinn his hotel room number, and they spend the night together. ... "My grandmother swore that she had seen an ifrit, or perhaps a marid, late one evening, on the edge of the desert.