Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration ix Abbreviations xi Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies: An Introduction 1 Alexander D. Knysh PART I Dreams in Biographical, Historical, Theological, Poetical, and Oral Narratives, and on the Internet 1 Dreaming the Truth in the S¥ra of Ibn Hishåm 15 Sarah Mirza 2 Dreaming ¡anbalites: Dream-Tales in Prosopographical Dictionaries 31 Maxim Romanov 3 Numinous Vision, Messianic Encounters: Typological Representations in a Version of the Prophet’s ÷ad¥th al-ru˘yå and in Visions and Dreams of the Hidden Imam 51 Omid Ghaemmaghami 4 Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a Seventeenth-Century Poet from Herat Got His Name and Fame 77 Derek J. Mancini-Lander 5 Dreaming ˜Osmåns: Of History and Meaning 99 Gottfried Hagen vi Contents 6 Sometimes a Dream Is Just a Dream: Inculcating a “Proper” Perspective on Dream Interpretation 123 Fareeha Khan 7 Dreams Online: Contemporary Appearances of the Prophet in Dreams 139 Leah Kinberg 8 Transforming Contexts of Dream Interpretation in Dubai 159 Muhammad alZekri PART II 'UHDPVLQ6XÀ/LWHUDWXUH 9 Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice 181 Jonathan G. Katz 10 Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Dreaming in the Classical and Medieval Sufi Tradition 199 Erik S. Ohlander 11 Witnessing the Lights of the Heavenly Dominion: Dreams, Visions and the Mystical Exegeses of Shams al-D¥n al-Daylam¥ 215 Elizabeth R. Alexandrin 12 Narrating Sight: Dreaming as Visual Training in Persianate Sufi Hagiography 233 Shahzad Bashir 13 (Re)creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Muråd III’s Self-Fashioning 249 Özgen Felek 14 The Visionaries of a T .ar¥qa: The Uways¥ Sufis of Shåhjahånåbåd 273 Meenakshi Khanna Contributors 297 Index 301 ...