The Emergence of the Holy Man in Early Islamic Mysticism: The Myrtle in a Muslim Woman’s Dream and its Late Antique Echoes
This paper brings together an account of an early Muslim woman’s dream with texts relating to the ‘holy man’ and the spiritual hierarchy in early Islam. Both dream account and the holy men texts were authored by the dreamer’s husband, the third/ninth century mystic al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, in whose oeu...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 463-495 |
IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam TF Early Middle Ages |
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