' black magic,' but in modern Arabic the same word is used for ' entertaining magic '". According to Adam Silverstein, the "Arabic word for 'magic' is siḥr. The word usually translated as "magic" in the Quran is siḥr. Over the centuries, magic has "become intricately interwoven with religious elements and practices" in Islamic culture-despite the efforts of orthodox Islamic scholars to stamp it (magic) out-so that the line between what is forbidden and what is allowed has become "blurred".
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Īs of 2005, this division was on display in bookstalls in market places across the Muslim Middle East and North Africa, where "handbooks for practitioners of the occult" were found alongside "books full of warnings and condemnations" of the handbooks' contents. At least some of this dispute may be explained by how magic, or forbidden magic, is defined whether natural, or sympathetic magic-which "makes use of the hidden properties (in Arabic: khawass) of natural substances"-is included as forbidden magic. On the other hand, magic has also been declared by Islamic scholars to be "evil" in any and all of their forms, denying its practitioners entrance into heaven, and earning them a "divinely sanctioned" punishment of death. Magic has been called a "vital element of everyday life and practice" in both the contemporary and historical Islamic world, the topics generating a "staggering" amount of "literature." Techniques include evocation, casting lots, the production of amulets and other magical equipment.
These include protection from black magic, the evil eye, demons, and evil jinn, which are thought to bring "illness, poverty, and everyday misfortunes" or alternately practices seeking to bring "good fortune, health, increased status, honor, and power". Magic or sorcery (which seeks to alter the course of events usually by calling on a supernatural force) and divination (attempts "to predict future events or gain information about things unseen"), or occultism, encompass a wide range of practices. In Islamic culture and Muslim communities throughout the world, magic is "widespread and pervasive". Divination, magic, and occultism in Islam
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