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Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781009076234<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakk\u0101k\u012b’s Kit\u0101b al-Sh\u0101mil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Ab\u016b Isr\u0101’\u012bl B\u016bzayn ibn Sulaym\u0101n, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology\u2014the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From \u2018Aj\u0101\u2019ib al-makhl\u016bq\u0101t wa-ghar\u0101\u2019ib al-mawj\u016bd\u0101t by Zakariyy\u0101\u02be ibn Mu\u1e25ammad al-Qazw\u012bn\u012b, [fol. \u200e99v] British Library, MS Or. 14140.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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