entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ISL_DIV,SRC_ISLAMIC_JINN_LORE,scholarly attestation,"The div (Persian dev), a malevolent demonic being of Persianate Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian tradition (cf. the Avestan daeva), assimilated to the jinn in Islamic-era folklore and prominent in epics such as the Shahnameh."
ENT_ISL_GHUL,SRC_ISLAMIC_JINN_LORE,scholarly attestation,"The ghul (English 'ghoul'), a shape-shifting desert demon of pre-Islamic Arabian and classical Islamic lore that lures and devours lone travellers, classed among the jinn but of marginal, debated status in orthodox cosmology."
ENT_ISL_JINN_CLASSES,SRC_ISLAMIC_JINN_LORE,scholarly attestation,"A grouping node for the ranked classes of jinn enumerated in classical Islamic lore (al-Jahiz, al-Damiri) — jinni, shaytan, ifrit, marid, ghul, si'lat and others; the roster and hierarchy differ between authors and are not Quranically fixed."
ENT_ISL_SILAT,SRC_ISLAMIC_JINN_LORE,scholarly attestation,"The si'lat (or si'la), a cunning, often female class of jinn in classical Arabian lore, sometimes paired with or distinguished from the ghul; sparsely and inconsistently described."