Share Africa's rich heritage and culture expressed through music, song, dance, and movement and win great prizes! Open main menu Edit Watch this page Read in another language Jinn Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Jinn (disambiguation) , Jinni (disambiguation) , Djinn (disambiguation) , Genie (disambiguation) and magic lantern (disambiguation) . This article is about the traditional concept. For the genies portrayed in popular culture, see genie in popular culture . Imam Ali Conquers Jinn , unknown artist, Ahsan-ol-Kobar (1568) Golestan Palace Jinn ( Arabic : الجن , al-jinn ), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the more broad meaning of demons ), [1] are supernatural creatures in early Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology . An indi...