John C. Lamoreaux is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite, with Paul Rorem.

• Acknolwedgments Introduction Dream Interpretation and DivinationContext, History, and Disciplinary BoundariesScribes and Selective MediationThe Structure of This Study 1. From Anecdote to Formalism Khallal and the History of Dream InterpretationThe Legacy of Ibn SirinKirmani and the Beginnings of a Written Tradition of Dream InterpretationThe Dream Manual of Ibn QutaybahThe Dream Manual of SijistaniConclusions 2. The Fracturing of the Tradition Hunayn b. Ishaq and the Arabic Version of ArtemidorusQayrawani: A Shari ah-Minded Interpreter of DreamsThe Dream Manual of the Litterateur DinawariKharkushi: Sufism, Dream Interpretation, and TraditionIbn Sina: Philosophy, Dream Interpretation, and the Legacy of HellenismConclusions 3. Homogeneity and Imitation The Contours of the Early Muslim Oneirocritic TraditionThe Contents of the Early Muslim Oneirocritic TraditionsConclusions 4. Dream Interpetation and Orthodoxy Finding a Koranic Foundation for Dream InterpretationDream Interpretation and the Prophetic TraditionsDream Manuals and Their Readers: The Case of AndalusiaThe Diary of a Hanbali Interpreter of DreamsConclusions 5. Dream Interpretation, Hellenism, and Non-Muslims Dream Interpretation and the Christians of Late AntiquityThe Dream Manual of Ps. AchmetBar Bahlul's Book of SignsConclusions Conclusions Dream Interpretation as an Islamicate DiscourseDream Interpretation as an Ecumenic Discourse Appendix. Early Muslim Dream Manuals Notes Bibliography Index

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