Sources
Every claim on this site traces back to one of these. Nothing here invents a lineage.
Primary & scriptural
- 01The Quran, Surah An-Naml (27), verses 38–40 — the ifrit's offer to bring the throne of Bilqis.
- 02Hadith and Mi'raj narrations referencing jinn and ifrit "among the jinn," consulted via standard collections and commentary.
Scholarly & philological
- 03Arabic philological tradition tracing ʿifrīt to the root ʿ-f-r (ʻafara, "to rub with dust"), as documented in standard Arabic lexicography and reference works on Islamic mythology.
- 04Discussion of the Middle Persian āfrītan hypothesis and its general rejection by specialists in Arabic etymology.
- 05Al-Ibshihi, al-Mustatraf — cited across secondary literature as an early text elaborating ifrit into a more defined folkloric category.
Folkloric & literary
- 06One Thousand and One Nights and the broader corpus of Arabic and Persian storytelling featuring jinn, ifrit, and female spirit-figures.
- 0719th–20th century European translation and illustration traditions that shaped the popular Western "genie," consulted for the folklore/fiction distinction drawn on the Ifreetah page.
Methodology. Claims are sorted into three tiers throughout this site: scriptural (Quran/hadith), scholarly (philology and academic reference), and folkloric (storytelling tradition, including fiction). No content here is presented as a fabricated classical lineage — where a detail is folklore or this site's own organizing frame, it is labeled as such rather than passed off as scripture.