Editing Jinn (section)

=== Post-modern literature and movies ===
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[[File:Majlis al Jinn - Descending into cave.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8 |The cave chamber ''[[Majlis al Jinn]]'', believed to be a gathering place of the jinn in [[Omani|Omani lore]]]]

Jinn feature in the [[Magic Realism|magical realism genre]], introduced into Turkish literature by [[Latife Tekin]] (1983),<ref>{{cite book |first=L. |last=Tekin |author-link=Latife Tekin |year=1983 |title=Sevgili Arsiz Ölüm |trans-title=Dear shameless Death}}</ref> who uses magical elements known from pre-Islamic and Islamic Anatolian lore. Since the 1980s, this genre has become prominent in Turkish literature. The story by Tekin deals with folkloric and religious belief in a [[Rationalization (sociology)|rationalized society]].<ref>{{cite thesis |first=Aslı |last=Değirmenci |date=9 August 2013 |title=Mapping Geographies in Transition: Magical realism in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Latife Tekin, and Ben Okri |degree=Ph.D. |department=Department of English |publisher=State University of New York |place=Buffalo, NY}}</ref>

Contrary to the neutral to positive depiction of jinn in Tekin's novels, since 2004 [[Jinn in horror films|jinn have become a common trope]] in [[Horror film|Middle Eastern horror movies]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Bilgehan Ece |last=Şakrak |article=Religious evils in Turkish horror films |title=This Thing of Darkness: Shedding light on evil |date=4 January 2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-1-84888-366-6}}</ref> The presentation of jinn usually combines Quranic with oral and cultural beliefs about jinn.<ref name=Zeynep-2007/> Out of 89&nbsp;films, 59 have direct references to jinn as the antagonist, 12 use other sorts of demons, while other types of horror, such as the impending apocalypse, hauntings, or ghosts, constitute only 14&nbsp;films.<ref name=Zeynep-2007>{{cite book |first=Zeynep |last=Koçer |date=13 March 2019 |orig-year=2007 |article=The monstrous-feminine and masculinityas abjection in Turkish horror cinema: An analysis of ''Haunted'' [''Musallat''] [by] Alper Mestçi |editor1=Holland, Samantha |editor2=Shail, Robert |editor3=Gerrard, Steven |title=Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film |pages=151–165 |place=Bingley, UK |publisher=Emerald |series=Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender |doi=10.1108/9781787698970 |isbn=978-1-78769-898-7|s2cid=214474411 |url=http://research.uca.ac.uk/5021/2/AAM%20without%20image%20-%20McMurdo%20and%20Clayton%20-%20Captivity.docx }}</ref> The popularity of jinn as a choice of monster can best be explained by their affirmation in the Quran.<ref name="Sengul-2020">Sengul, Ali. "Cinema, Horror and the Wrath of God: Turkish Islam's Claims in the Kurdish East." Nübihar Akademi 4.14: 11-28.</ref> They are still a popular trope today. A study from 2020 shows that jinn are still the favorite horror element among teenagers.<ref>Gjinali, V., & Tunca, E. A. (2020). A General Look on the Impact of Turkish Horror Movies: An Exploratory Study on the Opinions of Youth on Horror Movies. SAGE Open, 10(4). {{doi|10.1177/2158244020979701}}</ref> Jinn further feature in Iranian horror movies.<ref>Khosroshahi, Zahra. "Vampires, Jinn and the Magical in Iranian Horror Films." Frames 16 (2019): 2.</ref>