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A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the pre-modern period to the present.

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Author:   Özgen Felek ,  Alexander D. Knysh
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781438439945

ISBN 10:   1438439946
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   02 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies: An Introduction Alexander D. Knysh Part I Dreams in Biographical, Historical, Theological, Poetical, and Oral Narratives, and on the Internet 1. Dreaming the Truth in the Sira of Ibn Hisham Sarah Mirza 2. Dreaming Hanbalites: Dream-Tales in Prosopographical Dictionaries Maxim Romanov 3. Numinous Vision, Messianic Encounters: Typological Representations in a Version of the Prophet's hadith al-ru'ya and in Visions and Dreams of the Hidden Imam Omid Ghaemmaghami 4. Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a Seventeenth-Century Poet from Herat Got His Name and Fame Derek J. Mancini-Lander 5. Dreaming 'Osmans: Of History and Meaning Gottfried Hagen 6. Sometimes a Dream Is Just a Dream: Inculcating a ""Proper"" Perspective on Dream Interpretation Fareeha Khan 7. Dreams Online: Contemporary Appearances of the Prophet in Dreams Leah Kinberg 8. Transforming Contexts of Dream Interpretation in Dubai Muhammad alZekri Part II Dreams in Sufi Literature 9. Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice Jonathan G. Katz 10. Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Dreaming in the Classical and Medieval Sufi Tradition Erik S. Ohlander 11. Witnessing the Lights of the Heavenly Dominion: Dreams, Visions and the Mystical Exegeses of Shams al-Din al-Daylami Elizabeth R. Alexandrin 12. Narrating Sight: Dreaming as Visual Training in Persianate Sufi Hagiography Shahzad Bashir 13. (Re)creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Murad III's Self-Fashioning Ozgen Felek 14. The Visionaries of a Tariqa: The Uwaysi Sufis of Shahjahanabad Meenakshi Khanna Contributors Index"

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This book provides a marvelous appreciative look at an important aspect of the art of narrative across many facets of Muslim community life, and the endurance of that art through the centuries. The stories communicate not only substantial elements of theological importance but a pervasive sense of the significance of personal relationships, especially affection for the Prophet, all told with much warmth and wit. John Renard, author of Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective

This book provides a marvelous appreciative look at an important aspect of the art of narrative across many facets of Muslim community life, and the endurance of that art through the centuries. The stories communicate not only substantial elements of theological importance but a pervasive sense of the significance of personal relationships, especially affection for the Prophet, all told with much warmth and wit. - John Renard, author of Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective

Author Information

Ozgen Felek is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies at Stanford University. She is coeditor (with Walter G. Andrews) of Victoria R. Holbrook'a Armagan. Alexander D. Knysh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan. His books include Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam, also published by SUNY Press; Islamic Mysticism: A Short History; and Islam in Historical Perspective.

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