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Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies
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A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the premodern period to the present.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. vii
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  1. Note on Transliteration
  2. p. ix
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. p. xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-11
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  1. Part I: Dreams in Biographical, Historical, Theological, Poetical, and Oral Narratives, and on the Internet
  2. pp. 13-177
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  1. 1. Dreaming the Truth in the Sīra of Ibn Hishåm
  2. pp. 15-30
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  1. 2. Dreaming Ḥanbalites: Dream-Tales in Prosopographical Dictionaries
  2. pp. 31-50
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  1. 3. Numinous Vision, Messianic Encounters: Typological Representations in a Version of the Prophet’s ḥadīth al-ru˘yå and in Visions and Dreams of the Hidden Imam
  2. pp. 51-76
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  1. 4. Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a Seventeenth-Century Poet from Herat Got His Name and Fame
  2. pp. 77-97
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  1. 5. Dreaming Ŏṣmåns: Of History and Meaning
  2. pp. 99-122
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  1. 6. Sometimes a Dream Is Just a Dream: Inculcating a “Proper” Perspective on Dream Interpretation
  2. pp. 123-137
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  1. 7. Dreams Online: Contemporary Appearances of the Prophet in Dreams
  2. pp. 139-157
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  1. 8. Transforming Contexts of Dream Interpretation in Dubai
  2. pp. 159-177
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  1. Part II: Dreams in Sufi Literature
  2. p. 179
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  1. 9. Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice
  2. pp. 181-197
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  1. 10. Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Dreaming in the Classical and Medieval Sufi Tradition
  2. pp. 199-213
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  1. 11. Witnessing the Lights of the Heavenly Dominion: Dreams, Visions and the Mystical Exegeses of Shams al-Dīn al-Daylamī
  2. pp. 215-231
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  1. 12. Narrating Sight: Dreaming as Visual Training in Persianate Sufi Hagiography
  2. pp. 233-247
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  1. 13. (Re)creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Muråd III’s Self-Fashioning
  2. pp. 249-272
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  1. 14. The Visionaries of a Ṭarīqa: The Uwaysī Sufis of Shåhjahånåbåd
  2. pp. 273-296
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 297-300
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 301-322
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