Dreaming across boundaries
Subtitle: the interpretation of dreams in Islamic lands
By: edited by Louise Marlow.
Contributors: Marlow, Louise.; Ilex Foundation.; Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Series: Ilex Foundation series -- v. 1
Publisher: Ilex Foundation; Center for Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass; Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780674028135; 9780674021228
Subjects: Dream interpretation -- Islamic countries -- History; Dreams in literature; Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chiefly English, some Arabic.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Louise Marlow; title: Qurʼān and ḥadīth: a struggle for supremacy as reflected in dream narratives  -- Leah Kinberg; title: How Aristotle came to believe in God-given dreams: the Arabic version of De divinatione per somnum  -- Rotraud E. Hansberger; title: Early Muslim autobiographical dream narrative: Abū Jaʻfar al-Qāyinī and his dream of the Prophet Muhammad  -- John C. Lamoreaux; title: Self-reflection and conversion in medieval Muslim autobiographical dreams  -- Hagar Kahana-Smilansky; title: Dream as a narrative device in the Shāhnāma  -- Olga M. Davidson; title: Poor man's prophecy: al-Ghazālī on dreams  -- Eric Ormsby; title: Significance of dreams and dream interpretation in the Qurʼan: two Sufi commentaries on Sūrat Yūsuf  -- Mohammad J. Mahallati; title: Image of ʻAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in the dreams of visitors to his tomb  -- Khalid Sindawi; title: Dream accounts in the chronicles of the Mamluk period  -- Yehoshua Frenkel; title: Dreams of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn in late Safavid chronicles  -- Sholeh A. Quinn; title: Images for foretelling: two Topkapı Fālnāmas  -- Serpil Bağcı; title: Dreams in the Manāqib of a Moroccan Sufi Shaykh: ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Dabbāgh (d. 1131/1719) -- Jonathan G. Katz.