What this reference draws on

06 · BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sources

This reference draws on primary scripture, canonical hadith collections, and published folklore scholarship. Where a claim in the preceding chapters is folk tradition rather than textual, it is marked as such in place rather than footnoted here as if it carried equal textual weight.

Primary religious texts

• The Qur'anSurah Al-Hijr (15:27) and Surah Ar-Rahman (55:14–15), on the creation of the jann from fire.
• Sahih MuslimBook of Salaam (Greetings), hadith on the dhawwābin al-buyūt and the three-day warning, hadith no. 2236 and adjacent narrations.
• Sahih al-BukhariRelated narrations on jinn and snakes within the Book of the Beginning of Creation.

Classical commentary

• Tafsir al-TabariEarly exegesis on the jann and its relation to Iblis.
• Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-BariCommentary on the house-snake hadith within his broader commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.
• Ibn TaymiyyahWritings on jinn more broadly, cited by later scholars discussing the boundaries of the house-snake ruling.

Folklore and comparative scholarship

• Amira El-Zein, Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn Academic overview of jinn belief across Islamic textual and folk tradition.
• Regional folklore collectionsComparative material on Persian, Anatolian (including the Shahmaran cycle), Amazigh, and South Asian serpent-spirit traditions, referenced in Chapter Four to distinguish adjacent legends from the core subject.