Foreword | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Note on Transliteration | p. xi |
Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Qur'an and Hadith: A Struggle for Supremacy as Reflected in Dream Narratives | p. 25 |
How Aristotle Came to Believe in God-given Dreams: The Arabic Version of De divinatione per somnum | p. 50 |
An Early Muslim Autobiographical Dream Narrative: Abu Ja'far al-Qayini and His Dream of the Prophet Muhammad | p. 78 |
Self-Reflection and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Autobiographical Dreams | p. 99 |
The Dream as a Narrative Device in the Shahnama | p. 131 |
The Poor Man's Prophecy: Al-Ghazali on Dreams | p. 142 |
The Significance of Dreams and Dream Interpretation in the Qur'an: Two Sufi Commentaries on Surat Yusuf | p. 153 |
The Image of 'Ali b. Abi Talib in the Dreams of Visitors to His Tomb | p. 179 |
Dream Accounts in the Chronicles of the Mamluk Period | p. 202 |
The Dreams of Shaykh Safi al-Din in Late Safavid Chronicles | p. 221 |
Images for Foretelling: Two Topkapi Falnamas | p. 235 |
Dreams in the Manaqib of a Moroccan Sufi Shaykh: 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Dabbagh (d. 1131/1719) | p. 270 |
Contributors | p. 285 |
Index of Subjects and Terms | p. 291 |
Index of Names, Places, and Works | p. 297 |
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