Ifrit
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Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet, is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. The ʿafārīt are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and
The ifrit Arghan's eyes are slightly crossed and his orange skin spotted all over; he carries a chest over the waters on behalf of Hamza, from an illustration in the Hamzanama
The ifrit Al-Malik al-Aswad (The Black King) sitting on the right listening to the complaints of jinn; from an Arabic manuscript in the late 14th century Book of Wonders
Mask depicting Bes, ancient Egyptian deity, sometimes identified with afarit by Muslim Egyptians, early 4th–1st century BC (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
Māhān embraced by an ifrit. Illustration to Nizami Ganjavi's poem Hamsa. Bukhara, 1648.
Marid
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A marid is a type of devil in Islamic tradition. The Arabic word, meaning "rebellious," is applied to such supernatural beings. As a substantive it refers to a chthonic demon not much dissimilar to th
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…jar. Under the condition that the ifrit aids him to achieve riches, he releases the ifrit again. The latter ifrit, however, might be substituted by a marid, another type of powerful demon easily tricked by the protagonist. The latter portrayal of an ifrit, as a wish-granting spirit released from a jar…
Two Marids depicted in Albert Letchford's illustrations to Burton's translation of Arabian Nights