Billet of the research book ‘The world of djinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the workshop ‘The words, the sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’. Saturday, 8 July 2017 takes place a one-day workshop under the title ‘The words, sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’, organised by Ayda Bouanga (LabEx HaStec-CéSor-EHESS) and Jean-Charles Coulon (IRHT-CNRS) at the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) in Paris (65, rue des Grands Moulins, Paris) as part of the second congress of the Groupement d’Inintérêt Scientifiques ‘Middle East et Mondes Musulmans’.