Superstitions in Muslim societies information

Superstition is an excessively credulous belief in supernatural causality: the belief that one event is the cause of another without any physical process linking the two, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft, and apotropaic magic.^[1] According to Rashid Shaz, belief in such supernatural causality is widespread in the Muslim world and predates the introduction of Islam. He argues they involve "clinging to false hope" and even shirk.^[2]^{[unreliable source?]}

According to Travis Zadeh, while various elite Islamic religious factions in various geographical and historical context did contest and probed into beliefs and practices that were assumed to be superstitious, still, Quranic charms, belief in jinn, and visiting tombs of prophets and saints have had a historical hold on general religious people standard in Islamic point of views of salvation.^[3] Zadeh says that the belief in jinn and other Muslim occult culture is rooted in the Quran and the culture of early Islamic cosmography. In the same way shrine veneration and acceptance and promotion of saintly miracles has intimate connections to structures of Islamic religious authority and piety in Islamic history. Origins of the deployment of the Quran for protective and curative purposes can be found back to the earliest history of Islamic devotion.^[3] According to Michael Muhammad Knight, one community's divinely revealed or empirically observed knowledge would be mere superstition to another community. Knight says, most times religionists interested in demonstrating their rationalism and compatibility with science attempt to dissociate their religions from anything magical, at the same time most pro-science atheist thinkers believe that any attempt at differentiation between religion and magic can be flimsy at best.^[4] Knight says that the study of superstitions in Muslim societies raises difficult but important questions for any Islamic revivalist projects, and not only deconstructs between sectarian categories and within themselves too but also challenges the historical stability, coherence and distinctness of Islam as a religion.^[5]^{[need quotation to verify]}

^ Vyse, Stuart A (2000). Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. Oxford University Press. pp. 19–22. ISBN 978-0-1951-3634-0.
^ Shaz, Rashid; Shāz, Rāshid (2006). Islam, Negotiating the Future. Milli Publications. p. 167. ISBN 978-81-87856-05-4. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
^ ^a ^b Zadeh, Travis (1965). Collins, David J. (ed.). Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 235, 236, 237. ISBN 978-1-139-04302-1. OCLC 904389658.
^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016). "Creeping Mageia". Magic in Islam. New York: Tarcher Perigee. pp. 6, 7. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2. OCLC 932302756.
^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016). Magic in Islam. New York: Tarcher Perigee (Penguin). pp. 195, 197. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2. OCLC 932302756.
^ Zadeh, Travis. "Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought". Academia. pp. 236 of 235–267.

[vyse21-1] Vyse, Stuart A (2000). Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. Oxford University Press. pp. 19–22. ISBN 978-0-1951-3634-0.

[2] Shaz, Rashid; Shāz, Rāshid (2006). Islam, Negotiating the Future. Milli Publications. p. 167. ISBN 978-81-87856-05-4. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2020-09-12.

[:5-3] Zadeh, Travis (1965). Collins, David J. (ed.). Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 235, 236, 237. ISBN 978-1-139-04302-1. OCLC 904389658.

[4] Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016). "Creeping Mageia". Magic in Islam. New York: Tarcher Perigee. pp. 6, 7. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2. OCLC 932302756.

[5] Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016). Magic in Islam. New York: Tarcher Perigee (Penguin). pp. 195, 197. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2. OCLC 932302756.

[6] Zadeh, Travis. "Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought". Academia. pp. 236 of 235–267.

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