a race of imaginary beings who, according to Mohammedan belief, were created from fire, and hold an intermediate place between men and angels. They are supposed to eat, drink, and propagate their species, to be either good or evil, to exercise a most important influence on human affairs, and to be capable, like men, of future salvation or damnation. The orientals assert that the genii inhabited this world thousands of years before the birth of Adam, under many successive kings, who all bore the name of Solomon; that at length their depravity became such that Ebhis was sent to drive them into a remote part of the earth, there to be confined; and that some of that generation still remaining, they were by Tahmorath, one of the ancient kings of Persia, forced to retreat into the famous mountain of Kaph. There are also several ranks and degrees among this kind of beings, some being called absolutely Djin, others Peri or fairies; some Dir or giants, others Tucuin or fates. See Mohammedanism.