The Complete Magic of the Jinn Kings

What's Inside the Book of Jinn Kings

• Step-by-step conjuration protocols for the seven kings of jinn, with conditions and timings.
• Three-night binding rites with specific dietary restrictions and preparatory observances for the operator.
• Love, commerce, and authority operations with named spirits.
• The Seal of Investiture and how it establishes the operator's authority.

Sihr Muluk al-Jann: An Islamic Manuscript of the Jinn Kings

Sihr Muluk al-Jann (also written Sihr Muluk al-Jinn) means “the magic of the kings of the jinn”; al-Jann is another Arabic name for the jinn themselves. The manuscript is anonymous, and its subtitle calls it a work on the magic of the seven kings of the jinn: a book of jinn kings in the plainest sense, or of djinn kings, as the word is also spelled in English. Readers looking for an ancient Arabic manuscript on jinn should note that the translator dates this text to roughly the 14th to 16th centuries, which makes it a late medieval Islamic manuscript on jinn rather than an ancient one.

The jinn kings and their names

The book approaches the kings through investitures, seals and adjurations, among them an Adjuration of the Seven Jinn Kings. Among the jinn names it uses are King Maymun, whose investiture has its own chapter, and Shamhurash, listed among the names of the jinn and called the practitioner’s doorkeeper, with Barqan named beside them. Al-Ahmar, the Red King, is summoned in an adjuration that ends “By the power of these names, obey!” The instructions speak plainly of commanding “the king of the jinn” to appear in whatever form the operator wishes.

For the full roster of the seven jinn kings across the tradition, see the jinn names of all seven kings; for the Red King himself, see how to work with the al-Ahmar jinn king.

Surah Fatiha, Surah al-Jinn and the Quran in the rites

The Quran runs through the operations. The Talisman of the Fatiha is said to protect from every evil, and there is also an investiture of the Fatiha; a separate talisman for swiftly obtaining a response is worked by reciting Surah Fatiha three times. Verses from Surah al-Jinn, “a group of the jinn listened,” are recited in one conjuration together with verses of al-Ahqaf, and Surah al-Jinn is recited again with a talisman placed under the pillow. Other operations call for Ayat al-Kursi, Surat al-Qadr and Surat al-Qari’ah, and a chapter near the end of the book covers dismissing the spirits with recitation of the Quran.

Magic squares, seals and the map of the kings

The magic squares of Jibra’il and the squares of the Conjuration of the Concealment are reproduced as images from the source manuscript. Other chapters give their own seals: the delegation of the Golden King, and a chapter headed “The Seventh King,” devoted to ‘Azra’il, whose seal is written on gazelle-skin parchment and kept in a fired clay vessel. Readers hoping for a map of the kings of the jinns will find the nearest thing in the Grand Seal of the Seven Kings, a large numerical grid laid out by planet. For the squares themselves, see 7 magic squares for 7 jinn kings; for the method in outline, how to summon the seven kings of jinn.