Jinnthology
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! We're BACK after a COVID19 hiatus.
Our most popular episode every year is our jinn episode. This year, we're doing an anthology, a JINN OPEN MIC, a JINNTHOLOGY. Our former guests Shamira Ibrahim, Taz Ahmed, Basim Usmani, and Margari Hill all share their stories. We've got: folklore, poetry, fiction, and personal stories.
Follow Shamira @_ShamGod
Follow Taz @TazzyStar and buy her grief poetry collection "The Moon Split in Two" here: https://www.amazon.com/Day-Moon-Split-Two-Collection/dp/B08HTG6LS6
Follow Basim @BasiRoti
Follow Margari @Margari_Aziza and her work @MuslimARC
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Our music is by the Kominas. This week's custom spooky music was by Basim Usmani.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. This is Taz Ahmed, and I have some poems I'd like to read for you. |
| 0:14.0 | Taz, and what you might say from the Good Muslim Bad Muslim Podcast? Yeah, you heard right. |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to be doing things a little differently |
| 0:21.9 | this month on See Something Say Something. It's a gin story anthology. A gin story open mic. A ginthology, |
| 0:29.8 | you might say. And I can't wait to share all the stories we have with you. |
| 0:57.7 | So yeah, I'm Amid al-Yukper, I'm your host for this night of Stories of the Supernatural. |
| 1:02.4 | You see, we've been doing gin stories from the very first season of See Something Say Something. |
| 1:07.4 | Our third episode was about jinns and our most popular episode since going independent was about gins. |
| 1:09.7 | You all are pretty obsessed. |
| 1:13.3 | We've talked about gins in comic books, gin in folklore, |
| 1:19.3 | the gin sex scene in American gods. We've done so much gin content and you've all loved it. |
| 1:24.0 | If you haven't heard that yet, go back and take a listen. So I thought, what could I do different this year? We've had so many amazing guests on See Something Say Something. So I reached out to a long list of them and ask them if they had anything they would |
| 1:32.0 | want to read for our Gin Open Mic. What I got back was a stunning reflection that reflected |
| 1:37.6 | the diversity of stories we've had on See Something Say Something. We're going to have poetry |
| 1:41.6 | tonight. We're going to have folklore tonight. We've got some personal |
| 1:45.0 | moments of belief in the divine, and we've got a short fiction piece about a counterterrorism |
| 1:49.7 | expert who gets way over his own head. We've got it all. You won't be hearing as much of me |
| 1:54.9 | this episode. I'm just your host. But I will say if you want more context on Jins, please take a |
| 1:59.8 | listen to our most recent |
| 2:01.2 | episode on Jin's from last year, the tribes of Jin. |
| 2:04.5 | I'm going to assume you're all educated by now on what a Jin is and what it does and kind of |
| 2:09.0 | their characteristics as spooky spirits that are present in Islamic tradition. |
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