The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

by Helene Wecker

Bedouin women pinned amulets of iron beads to their babies’ clothing, to repel any jinn that might try to possess them, or carry them away and turn them to changelings.

This part is similar to the European or mostly English fae reference

wizards, men of great and dangerous knowledge, who’d learned to command and control the jinn, and trap them in lamps or flasks. These wizards, the storytellers said, had long since passed from existence, and only the faintest shadows of their powers remained.

This entry is similar to the qjranic description of Solomon pbuh

The Jinni was especially fascinated at any mention of the jinn, as when the men told tales of Sulayman, the human ruler who seven hundred years before had yoked the jinn to his rule, the first and last of the human kings to do so.

After a few false starts, the Jinni had recalled the caravan guards talking of the Grand Mosque, the new building in ash-Sham. “They’d said that inside the mosque was the head of a man, but not his body,” he said.

The head belonged to a man called John the Baptist, and the mosque was now known as the Umayyad Mosque—and it had stood in the city of ash-Sham for over a thousand years.

“A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You’ll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.”