Results for "quran"
11 entries found.
- Gris-gris Concept
🇪🇬 EgyptQuran code
A claim that the Quran's word and letter counts reveal a design built on the number 19Belief · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 moreBibliomancy
Divination by opening a book at random and reading the first passage foundOracle · Seeing and foretelling · Power and authority Living
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 5 moreIslamic exorcismرقية
A rite to expel spirits through Quranic recitation and negotiationRite · Healing · Cleansing and purification Living
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 moreIfritعفريت
A class of powerful chthonic spirits in Islamic tradition and folkloreBeing · Cursing and harm · Power and authority Historical
🇹🇷 Turkey and 1 moreTalismanic shirttılsımlı gömlek
A worn textile inscribed with sacred verses and symbols for protection in the Muslim worldCharm · Protection Historical
🇮🇷 IranʿIlm al-Ḥurūfعِلْم الْحُرُوف
A system of Arabic numerology that assigns numerical values to letters to reveal hidden meanings in the Quran.Belief · Seeing and foretelling Historical
🇩🇿 AlgeriaHezzabحزّاب
A Quran reciter who leads daily collective chanting in Algerian mosques.Tradition · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇱 Israel and 2 moreStaff of Mosesmaṭṭeh
A walking stick with miraculous powers in Jewish and Islamic traditionCharm · Power and authority · Healing Historical
🇮🇷 IranHouriحُورِيَّـة
Heavenly beings described in Islamic scripture as companions for the faithful in paradise.Being · Speaking with spirits and the dead Historical
🇾🇪 YemenʿAnāqأناق بنت آدم
A monstrous daughter of Adam in Islamic extra-Quranic traditionFigure · Cursing and harm Historical
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreGabrielגבריאל
An archangel who carries divine messages and explains visions in Abrahamic traditionsBeing · Protection Living
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 moreBibliomancy
Divination by opening a book at random and reading the first passage foundOracle · Seeing and foretelling · Power and authority Living
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 5 moreIslamic exorcismرقية
A rite to expel spirits through Quranic recitation and negotiationRite · Healing · Cleansing and purification Living
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 moreIfritعفريت
A class of powerful chthonic spirits in Islamic tradition and folkloreBeing · Cursing and harm · Power and authority Historical
🇹🇷 Turkey and 1 moreTalismanic shirttılsımlı gömlek
A worn textile inscribed with sacred verses and symbols for protection in the Muslim worldCharm · Protection Historical
🇮🇷 IranʿIlm al-Ḥurūfعِلْم الْحُرُوف
A system of Arabic numerology that assigns numerical values to letters to reveal hidden meanings in the Quran.Belief · Seeing and foretelling Historical
🇩🇿 AlgeriaHezzabحزّاب
A Quran reciter who leads daily collective chanting in Algerian mosques.Tradition · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇱 Israel and 2 moreStaff of Mosesmaṭṭeh
A walking stick with miraculous powers in Jewish and Islamic traditionCharm · Power and authority · Healing Historical
🇮🇷 IranHouriحُورِيَّـة
Heavenly beings described in Islamic scripture as companions for the faithful in paradise.Being · Speaking with spirits and the dead Historical
🇾🇪 YemenʿAnāqأناق بنت آدم
A monstrous daughter of Adam in Islamic extra-Quranic traditionFigure · Cursing and harm Historical
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreGabrielגבריאל
An archangel who carries divine messages and explains visions in Abrahamic traditionsBeing · Protection Living
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Staff of Moses: John Everett Millais, Public domain, source
- Talismanic shirt: Ibrahim Husain Meraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gabriel: uploader Koperczak ( talk ) 06:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC), Public domain, source
- Ifrit: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Hezzab: Elph, Public domain, source
- Bibliomancy: Albert Robida, Public domain, source
- Islamic exorcism: Unknown Calligrapher, Public domain, source