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- catalog abstract ""Based on Muhammad al-Zawawi's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of fifteenth-century North African Muslim life." "The study reconstructs Zawawi's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawawi's religious experience are thoroughly explored." "The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam. Particular attention is paid to the way Zawawi and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being awliya', or living saints."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9733387.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Based on Muhammad al-Zawawi's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of fifteenth-century North African Muslim life." "The study reconstructs Zawawi's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawawi's religious experience are thoroughly explored." "The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam. Particular attention is paid to the way Zawawi and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being awliya', or living saints."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 260 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "9004105999 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the history of religions ; 71.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 71".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,".
- catalog spatial "Africa, North".
- catalog subject "297/.4/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "BP80.B495 K38 1996".
- catalog subject "Bijāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAli, active 15th century. Tụhfat al-nāẓir wa-nuzhat al-manāẓir.".
- catalog subject "Sufism Africa, North History.".
- catalog title "Dreams, Sufism, and sainthood : the visionary career of Muhammad al-Zawâwî / by Jonathan G. Katz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".