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On 03/10/2024 03:07, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> “Muslim academic claims Israel used jinn to take out Hezbollah’s chieftain”
> 
> https://www.wnd.com/2024/10/muslim-academic-claims-israel-used-jinn-to-take-out-hezbollahs-chieftain/
> 
> “’Considering the Zionists’ history of subjugating genies, they carry 
> out many of their missions through this means’”
> 
> Yes ! Although, all the stories that I have read of jinns did not go 
> well for the caller of the jinn.
> 
> Are there any good SF/F stories involving jinns ?

There's an episode in Terry Pratchett's
_Sourcery_ where a genie turns up as
basically a 1980s property-owning landlord
?but with magic lamps, and hard to get
service from for /your/ lamp.  I suspect
that the date of writing that story can be
narrowed down minutely.

And of course you may search James Nicoll's
reviews web site for words jinn, djinn,
genie, and any other spelling or theological
distinctions that you can recall, I'm afrit.

This does get you Taiyo Fujii's _Gene Mapper_,
a novel of plant genetic engineering gone wrong,
not as wrong as /that/ since I assume that
James refers to "genies-escaping–from-their-bottle
moments" only as a figure of speech about
genetic engineered species which escape from
controlled experimentation and which are difficult
to round up.