{"product_id":"dreamsandvisionsinislamicsocieties","title":"Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOzgen Felek, Alexander D. Knysh (editors)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 334 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9781438439945\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the premodern period to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDreams and visions have always been important in Islamic societies. Yet, their pervasive impact on Muslim communities and on the lives of individual Muslims remains largely unknown and rather surprising to Westerners. This book addresses this gap in understanding with a fascinating and diverse account, taking readers from premodern Islam to the present day. Dreams and visions are shown to have been, and to be, significant in a range of social, educational, and cultural roles. The book includes a wealth of examples detailing the Sufi experience. Contributors use Arabic, Persian, Indian, Central Asian, and Ottoman sources and employ approaches grounded in history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religious studies, and literary analysis. This is an illuminating work, showing how ordinary Muslims, Muslim notables, Sufis, legal scholars, and rulers have perceived both themselves and the world around them through the prism of dreams and visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDreams in Biographical, Historical, Theological, Poetical, and Oral Narratives, and on the Internet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Dreaming the Truth in the Sīra of Ibn Hishām\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Mirza \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Dreaming Ḥanbalites: Dream-Tales in Prosopographical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDictionaries \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaxim Romanov \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Numinous Vision, Messianic Encounters: Typological Representations in a Version of the Prophet’s ḥadīth al-ru’yā and in Visions and Dreams of the Hidden Imam \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmid Ghaemmaghami \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a Seventeenth-Century Poet from Herat Got His Name and Fame\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerek J. Mancini-Lander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Dreaming ‘Osmāns: Of History and Meaning \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGottfried Hagen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Sometimes a Dream Is Just a Dream: Inculcating a “Proper” Perspective on Dream Interpretation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFareeha Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Dreams Online: Contemporary Appearances of the Prophet in Dreams \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeah Kinberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Transforming Contexts of Dream Interpretation in Dubai \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuhammad alZekri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDreams in Sufi Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice             \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan G. Katz \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Dreaming in the Classical and Medieval Sufi Tradition \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErik S. Ohlander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Witnessing the Lights of the Heavenly Dominion: Dreams, Visions and the Mystical Exegeses of Shams al-Dīn al-Daylamī \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth R. Alexandrin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Narrating Sight: Dreaming as Visual Training in Persianate Sufi Hagiography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShahzad Bashir\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. (Re)creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Murād III’s Self-Fashioning \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÖzgen Felek\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. The Visionaries of a Ṭarīqa: The Uwaysī Sufis of Shāhjahānābād\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeenakshi Khanna\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SUNY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32985233457187,"sku":"9781438439945","price":59.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/411e9f3546d0412105438686b5581c9ce5344f90.jpg?v=1608092210","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/dreamsandvisionsinislamicsocieties","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}