Özgen Felek is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies at Stanford University. She is coeditor (with Walter G. Andrews) of Victoria R. Holbrook'a Armagan. Alexander D. Knysh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan. His books include Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam, also published by SUNY Press; Islamic Mysticism: A Short History; and Islam in Historical Perspective.

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Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies: An Introduction
Alexander D. Knysh

Part I
Dreams in Biographical, Historical, Theological, Poetical, and Oral Narratives, and on the Internet

1. Dreaming the Truth in the Sira of Ibn Hisham
Sarah Mirza

2. Dreaming ¿anbalites: Dream-Tales in Prosopographical
Dictionaries
Maxim Romanov

3. Numinous Vision, Messianic Encounters: Typological Representations in a Version of the Prophet's ¿adith al-ru'ya and in Visions and Dreams of the Hidden Imam
Omid Ghaemmaghami

4. Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a Seventeenth-Century Poet from Herat Got His Name and Fame
Derek J. Mancini-Lander

5. Dreaming 'Osmans: Of History and Meaning
Gottfried Hagen

6. Sometimes a Dream Is Just a Dream: Inculcating a "Proper" Perspective on Dream Interpretation
Fareeha Khan

7. Dreams Online: Contemporary Appearances of the Prophet in Dreams
Leah Kinberg

8. Transforming Contexts of Dream Interpretation in Dubai
Muhammad alZekri

Part II
Dreams in Sufi Literature

9. Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice            
Jonathan G. Katz

10. Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Dreaming in the Classical and Medieval Sufi Tradition
Erik S. Ohlander

11. Witnessing the Lights of the Heavenly Dominion: Dreams, Visions and the Mystical Exegeses of Shams al-Din al-Daylami
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin

12. Narrating Sight: Dreaming as Visual Training in Persianate Sufi Hagiography
Shahzad Bashir

13. (Re)creating Image and Identity: Dreams and Visions as a Means of Murad III's Self-Fashioning
Özgen Felek

14. The Visionaries of a ¿ariqa: The Uwaysi Sufis of Shahjahanabad
Meenakshi Khanna

Contributors
Index