Ecology of the Jinn - in the Economist!

[Zander]

OK, maybe not an Ecology article as you might expect to find in Dragon but there's an interesting article on the origins of Jinn and beliefs about them in Middle Eastern and African cultures in the current issue (23 Dec - 5 Jan) of the Economist, page 89. Lots of potential game ideas.

 

[diaglo]

sweet. thanks for posting. i'm gonna go read this tonight.

diaglo "gets the Economist for his wife" Ooi

 

[grodog]

What's the article title? Nothing jumped out at me at http://www.economist.com/index.html

 

[Zander]

What's the article title? Nothing jumped out at me at http://www.economist.com/index.html

Born of Fire

 

[jaerdaph]

Cool - that sounds very interesting - I think I'll pick it up a copy at lunch today.

Thanks, Zander.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

I don't know if it's the whole article or not (I intend to find out) but there's a good-sized write up on The Economist website:

Jinn - Born of Fire

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Really cool article!!!

 

[jaerdaph]

Well, a newer issue was out on the newstand so I thought I'd missed out, but Hal has saved the day.

I don't know if it's the whole article or not (I intend to find out) but there's a good-sized write up on The Economist website:

Jinn - Born of Fire

Thanks Hal!

 

[diaglo]

OK, maybe not an Ecology article as you might expect to find in Dragon but there's an interesting article on the origins of Jinn and beliefs about them in Middle Eastern and African cultures in the current issue (23 Dec - 5 Jan) of the Economist, page 89. Lots of potential game ideas.

the U.S. version has it on pages 63-64.

the article is very highly religious, of course, and deals with modern day Somalia and Afghanistan. and a tad bit of history on Genghis Khan and Mongolia.

a bit of a letdown really due to how short the article is.

edit: Hal's link is the full article

 

[jaerdaph]

a bit of a letdown really due to how short the article is.

edit: Hal's link is the full article

I still thought it was interesting. I'm just glad I didn't pay $6.99 for it.