Muslims dreaming of Christians, Christians dreaming of Muslims: images from medieval dream interpretation
Medieval Muslims attached great importance to learning the hidden meanings of dreams which, they believed, might disclose the true character of the dreamer and others or predict the future. The popularity of dream interpretation in the Islamic Middle East is reflected in the large number of manuals...
| Publié dans: | Islam and Christian-Muslim relations |
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2006
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Dialogue
B Moyen Âge B Islam B Middle Ages B Christianity B Christianisme |
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| Résumé: | Medieval Muslims attached great importance to learning the hidden meanings of dreams which, they believed, might disclose the true character of the dreamer and others or predict the future. The popularity of dream interpretation in the Islamic Middle East is reflected in the large number of manuals devoted to the subject. They provide a valuable picture of common information, misinformation and social attitudes on a wide range of topics, including Christianity and Christians. By contrast, Christian dream interpreters were frequently regarded with suspicion in the Byzantine Empire and very little of their work has survived. The present study looks at views of each other's faith in the work of two major interpreters, one Muslim and one Christian, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, an influential period in a very conservative tradition where interpretations would commonly be repeated for centuries in many different compilations. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Contient: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410600604500 |