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Dreaming in Christianity and Islam Dreaming in Christianity and Islam Culture, Confl ict, and Creativity EDITED BY KELLY BULKELEY KATE ADAMS PATRICIA M. DAVIS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Dreaming in Christianity and Islam : culture, confl ict, and creativity / edited by Kelly Bulkeley, Kate Adams, and Patricia M. Davis. (cid:1)(cid:1)p. cm. Based on a conference held in summer 2005 in Berkeley, Calif. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–609– (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–8135–610–0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Dreams—Religious aspects—Christianity—Congresses.(cid:1)2. Dreams—Religious aspects—Islam—Congresses.(cid:1)3. Dreams—Religious aspects—Comparative studies— Congresses.(cid:1)I. Bulkeley, Kelly, 1962–(cid:1)II. Adams, Kate.(cid:1)III. Davis, Patricia M., 1955– BR115.D7D7 2009 20'.2—dc2 200805186 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2009 by Rutgers, The State University Individual chapters copyright © 2009 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 0885–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defi ned by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America For the International Association for the Study of Dreams CONTENTS Foreword xi LEE H. BUTLER JR. Introduction 1 PART ONE Dreaming in Christianity 1 Divine Dream Dilemmas: Biblical Visions and Dreams 17 BART J. KOET 2 Early Christians and Their Dreams 32 BONNELLE LEWIS STRICKLING 3 Discerning the Voice of God: Case Studies in Christian History 43 PATRICIA M. DAVIS 4 Dreaming through the Bible with Luther and Calvin 57 GEOFF NELSON 5 Dreams and Visions of the Dying 71 PATRICIA BULKLEY PART TWO Dreaming in Islam 6 Dreaming in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad 81 HIDAYET AYDAR vii viii CONTENTS 7 Islamic Dreaming: An Analysis of Its Truthfulness and Infl uence 98 MUHAMMAD AMANULLAH 8 Healing and Dreams in Islam 111 ABDEMALEK YAMANI 9 Istikhara and Dreams: Learning about the Future through Dreaming 123 HIDAYET AYDAR 10 Dream and Spirit in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah’s Qitab al-Ruh 137 MEHMET DALKILIC 11 The Jinn: Companion in the Realm of Dreams and Imagination 143 LANA NASSER 12 Women and Dream Interpretation in Contemporary Iran 155 PARISA RAHIMIAN PART THREE Two Traditions in Dialogue 13 Books on Dream Interpretation: Artemidorus and Kutbuttinzade 167 RESAT ONGOREN 14 Conversion Dreams in Christianity and Islam 175 PATRICIA M. DAVIS AND LEWIS RAMBO 15 A Comparison of Islamic and Western Psychological Dream Theories 188 IAIN R. EDGAR 16 The Typical Dreams of Jordanian College Students 200 LANA NASSER AND KELLY BULKELEY 17 Dreams of Muslim and Christian Children 217 KATE ADAMS 18 Discussing Dreams in a Prison in Amsterdam 226 BART J. KOET CONTENTS ix 19 The Ambiguities of Privilege 236 JEREMY TAYLOR Conclusion 249 Notes on Contributors 253 Index 257
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