Dreams & visions in the world of Islam : a history of Muslim dreaming and foreknowing / Elizabeth Sirriyeh.

Elizabeth Sirriyeh offers the first concerted history of the rise of dream interpretation in Islamic culture, from medieval times to the present. Central to the book is the figure of the Prophet Muhammad - seen to represent for Muslims the perfect dreamer, visionary and interpreter of dreams. Less b...

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Main Author: Sirriyeh, Elizabeth (Author)
Other title:Dreams and visions in the world of Islam.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Series:Library of modern religion ; 45.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Seeing gods and angels before the rise of Islam
  • The prophet as model visionary
  • Scholars and saints in the path of the prophet
  • The dream must be interpreted
  • Muslims dreaming of Christians, Christians dreaming of Muslims
  • 'And if a woman dreams'
  • Envisioning God and his prophet
  • Contacting the righteous dead
  • Visionary traditions and the impact of modernity.