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Dreams and Dreaming in Islam
Abstract
In my overview of approaches to dreams and dreaming in Islam, I focus primarily on hermeneutic questions about the practice of dream interpretation. As the passage cited above suggests, the idea that there is a factual meaning or indication to a dream is assumed in the tradition. However, the interpretive process, the contextualization of dream and dreamer, and the relation between them are all factors of successful exegesis. This is foundational in approaching Islamic understandings of dreams and dreaming.
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“As Mittermaier (2010) has shown, many Muslim groups have continued to value the spiritual significance of dreams since the Prophet Muhammad first received divine revelation through dreaming (see Hermansen 2001).”
From Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World (2013) · cites this paper as Hermansen 2001
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Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World
LOHMANN, R. I., & DAHL, S. A. P. (2013) · Reviews in Anthropology · doi:10.1080/00938157.2013.788346 · Cited by 6
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- Authors
- Hermansen, M.
- Corresponding author
- Hermansen, Marcia
- ORCID
- Hermansen, Marcia
- Venue
- Dreams
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 73-91
- OpenAlex
- W2484700518
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Islamic Thought and Society Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Qur’anic Interpretation Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
- Keywords
- dreams, dream interpretation, Islamic hermeneutics, Islamic tradition, dreamers
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