D the periods of colonization and modernization that have refashioned much of the city now known as New Delhi (henceforth Delhi), glimmers of past ways of being are apparent in the ruins of the centuriesold buildings that have been left behind. For Anand Vivek Taneja, these relics of Delhi’s medieval and Mughal past speak not only to what is lost; they also offer a bridge to recognizing what is still present, inviting discovery for the sincere and the faithful. This observation is part of the inspiration for his book, Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. Taneja’s work is guided by what he declares to be a love of these living Islamic artifacts from a bygone era—buildings that are often otherwise misunderstood and underestimated in their revelatory powers. The affection for these buildings includes a reverential awe in the spirits known as jinn that believers contend are capable of healing real and invisible wounds, of righting past and present wrongs, and—perhaps as much as anything else—providing solace in the conviction that powerful forces are operating beneath the mundane. In a seven-chapter text, Taneja explores a range of themes and topics that weave the past with the present, the ethnographic with the archival, and the academically astute with the prose of Rekhti poets. In his introduction and his first chapter, for instance, Taneja sets up his conceptual framework for Jinnealogy—which, in an early articulation, he refers to as “a theological orientation that encompasses the registers of ironic commentary, counter-memory, and apotropaic magic” (25). He later also describes it as a study of “the superseding of human transmission of memory by the longevity of the jinn” (44). To explain how the study of the jinn illuminates

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Jinnealogy：德里中世纪废墟中的时间、伊斯兰教和生态思想 作者 Anand Vivek Taneja

D 殖民化和现代化时期改造了现在被称为新德里（以下称为德里）的城市的大部分地区，过去存在方式的微光在被遗弃的数百年历史建筑的废墟中清晰可见。对于 Anand Vivek Taneja 来说，德里中世纪和莫卧儿历史的这些遗迹不仅说明了失去的东西；它们还提供了一个桥梁，让人们认识到仍然存在的东西，邀请真诚和忠实的人去发现。这一观察是他的书《Jinnealogy：德里中世纪废墟中的时间、伊斯兰教和生态思想》的灵感的一部分。Taneja 的作品以他所宣称的对过去时代这些活生生的伊斯兰文物的热爱为指导——这些建筑的启示力量往往被误解和低估。对这些建筑的喜爱包括对被称为神灵的精神的崇敬敬畏，信徒认为它能够治愈真实和无形的伤口，纠正过去和现在的错误，并且——也许和其他任何东西一样——在强大的信念中提供安慰力量在世俗之下运作。在七章的文本中，Taneja 探索了一系列主题和主题，这些主题和主题将过去与现在、民族志与档案以及学术上的精明与 Rekhti 诗人的散文交织在一起。例如，在他的介绍和他的第一章中，Taneja 建立了他的 Jinnealogy 概念框架——在早期的阐述中，他将其称为“一种神学取向，包括反讽评论、反记忆和逆向魔法。 ”（25）。他后来还将其描述为“精灵的长寿取代人类记忆传递”的研究（44）。解释精灵的研究是如何发光的