A 17th-Century Daghestani Arabic Treatise on Djinns

Introducing a newly-discovered tale from the Caucasus

The black king of the djinns, Al-Malik al-Aswad, from the late 14th-century Book of Wonders

As a preview of a forthcoming study guide on the literatures of the North Caucasus from antiquity to the present, I share here a story about a newly-discovered treatise on djinns from early modern Daghestan