Talk:Spirit possession and exorcism in Islam

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Not neutral or lacking balanced opinion[edit]

This article seems to lack a lot of information not to mention any alternate or opposing views which makes this article seem very biased and one-sided. I think the neutrality of this article should be called into question and anybody who knows more about this practice who has experience of it possibly anyone who knows any better about less harmful methods which are not abusive should come forward and report on this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.87.186 (talk) 01:56, March 3, 2014 (UTC)

As a Muslim, I have never heard of Jinn-therapy or anything mentioned in this article. Nor have I heard or read about it. I have not even heard or read about such a practice in any other sect/branch of Islam. Few people do some odd things and that is considered Islam's view?!! KachaleMouferferee (talk) 21:21, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings. This article is about "Exorcism within Islam" that does not mean, Islam includes necesarrily Exorcism rituals, neither that they are part of Islamic theology (Exorcism is indeed more up to folklore and part of Islamic traditions, for example jinn-possession does not appear even once in the Quran). We could for example add an "critic"-section, but we need reliable secondary sources for further sections. You may edit them on your own or show them in this talkpage.--VenusFeuerFalle (talk) 16:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

misunderstand[edit]

this article has alot of wrong concepts about islam and Ruqya I think the writer has a misunderstand about Ruqya Almost all of the article is wrong and the reference itself has nothing to do with islam Some muslim expert has to edit the article Hager gamal mohamed (talk) 23:20, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Superstitions in Muslim societies for deletion[edit]

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big rewriting[edit]

here it is. Changed title, greatly expanded, removed about 4 tags.

Have worked on this for a couple of weeks (or at least it feels like it). --Louis P. Boog (talk) 20:18, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Exorcist procedure[edit]

doesn't the procedure also usually imply an invite to Islam? Before trying to excorcise the jinn, some scholars invite them to abandon their unbelief and become Muslims instead. Are there recrods in good sources about that? (also: awesome improvement of the article so far)--VenusFeuerFalle (talk) 23:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

did not find any records in good sources about this. Louis P. Boog (talk) 20:38, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Move[edit]

What was the reason for moving this page from "Exorcism in Islam" to "Spirit possession and exorcism in Islam". The former title was more WP:CONCISE and WP:CONSISTENT with Exorcism in Christianity and Exorcism in the Catholic Church.VR talk 19:22, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

i would have thought it would have been obvious. there is no exorcism without possession and much of the article is about possession. Louis P. Boog (talk) 19:38, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
approximately half the article is about possession. Louis P. Boog (talk) 20:40, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

God[edit]

Allah is the one 2600:2B00:766F:2000:9894:51DC:C68B:ECD (talk) 03:22, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Citation needed"[edit]

For anyone wondering why there are so many bald statements in this article, like

Belief in the supernatural—witchcraft, sorcery, magic, ghosts, and demons—in the Muslim world is not marginalized as eccentric or a product of ignorance, but is prevalent among all social classes.

and then instead of those statements being followed by a source, instead there is a [citation needed] tag, well, there did use to be a citation. Citations such as

  • <ref name=MEQ-2013>{{cite journal |title=The Politics of Muslim Magic |journal=Middle East Quarterly |volume=20 |issue= 2 |date=Spring 2013 |pages= |last1=Perlmutter |first=Dawn |url=https://www.meforum.org/3533/islam-magic-witchcraft |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>.
  • <ref name=WoJ1> al-Jinn 72:14-15], quoted in {{cite web |title=The world of Jinn #2340 | url=https://islamqa.info/amp/en/answers/2340 |website=Islam Question and Answer }}</ref>

Unfortunately, the sources in those citations have been decreed "biased" (meforum.org), or in the case of IslamQA, unapproved because the head of the site does not have academic credentials, and the citations were deleted. I maintain the sources and their information are credible, but I'm in the minority.--Louis P. Boog (talk) 21:15, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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