Dreaming across boundaries : the interpretation of dreams in Islamic lands / edited by Louise Marlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marlow, Louise.

Ilex Foundation.

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Ilex Foundation series ; v. 1.

Ilex Foundation series ; v. 1

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Dream interpretation--Islamic countries--History.

Dream interpretation.

Dreams in literature.

Dreams--Religious aspects--Islam.

Dreams.

History.

Literature.

Islamic countries.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Ilex Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

Chiefly English, some Arabic.

Summary:

Narratives of dreams abound in the literatures of the Near East and North Africa. Such narratives, together with discussions of the significance and interpretation of dreams, feature in a wide variety of writings drawn from literary, historiographical, philosophical, religious, and medical disciplines. In a series of close studies of dream narratives, each carefully situated in its historical and literary context, this volume of twelve essays explores the diverse functions of dreams, including divination and prediction, personal reflection and resolution, and theological argument. Among the themes examined in the articles are the reception and development of Greek and Hellenistic treatments of dreams, the role of dreams in addressing and sometimes resolving conflicting theological points of view, dreams as a medium for communication with the dead, and the predictive and legitimizing role of royal dreams in the advent of new dynasties. In the context of these varied personal reflections, theological speculations, and political aspirations, which are often closely inter-related, the contributors to the collection present fascinating insights into the social history and cultural diversity of several pre-modern Muslim societies.

Contents:

Introduction / Louise Marlow

Qurʼān and ḥadīth: a struggle for supremacy as reflected in dream narratives / Leah Kinberg

How Aristotle came to believe in God-given dreams: the Arabic version of De divinatione per somnum / Rotraud E. Hansberger

Early Muslim autobiographical dream narrative: Abū Jaʻfar al-Qāyinī and his dream of the Prophet Muhammad / John C. Lamoreaux

Self-reflection and conversion in medieval Muslim autobiographical dreams / Hagar Kahana-Smilansky

Dream as a narrative device in the Shāhnāma / Olga M. Davidson

Poor man's prophecy: al-Ghazālī on dreams / Eric Ormsby

Significance of dreams and dream interpretation in the Qurʼan: two Sufi commentaries on Sūrat Yūsuf / Mohammad J. Mahallati

Image of ʻAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in the dreams of visitors to his tomb / Khalid Sindawi

Dream accounts in the chronicles of the Mamluk period / Yehoshua Frenkel

Dreams of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn in late Safavid chronicles / Sholeh A. Quinn

Images for foretelling: two Topkapı Fālnāmas / Serpil Bağcı

Dreams in the Manāqib of a Moroccan Sufi Shaykh: ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Dabbāgh (d. 1131/1719) / Jonathan G. Katz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Dreaming across boundaries.

ISBN:

9780674028135

0674028139

9780674021228

0674021223

OCLC:

65765390