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Based on Muhammad al-Zawawi's diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides an intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. It reconstructs Zawawi's life story over a critical ten-year period, and examines his career as a sufi in its historical context. The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam, and particular attention is paid throughout the text to the way Zawawi and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being ""awliya"", or living saints.

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'.. .Katz makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of Sufi thought.' <br>Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, The Maghreb Review, 1997.<br>' Katz has opened an impressive window into a phenomenon rarely broached in Western religious life...Al-Zaw?w? should be pleased that, with Katz's aid, he has now reached an audience befitting his own highly prized state: a wal? truly for the world.'<br>Earle H. Waugh, History of Religions, 1998.<br>'.. .an informative and often insightful treatment of this subject.'<br>Carl Olson, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1997.<br>

'...Katz makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of Sufi thought.' Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, The Maghreb Review, 1997. 'Katz has opened an impressive window into a phenomenon rarely broached in Western religious life...Al-Zawawi should be pleased that, with Katz's aid, he has now reached an audience befitting his own highly prized state: a wali truly for the world.' Earle H. Waugh, History of Religions, 1998. '...an informative and often insightful treatment of this subject.' Carl Olson, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1997.

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Jonathan G. Katz, Ph.D. (1990) in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is an Assistant Professor of History at Oregon State University. He has published many articles on dreams and visions in Islam.

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