Conferences - Annual MESA Conference, 2003

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Ilex Foundation hosted a panel entitled "Dreaming Across Boundaries: Divination in Islamic Lands, " at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting on November 7-9, in Anchorage, Alaska.

See a PDF of the MESA 2003 Annual Meeting Film Schedule.

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Chair

Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University

Discussant

Mohsen Ashtiany, Columbia University

Paper topics and presenters

Jonathan G. Katz, Oregon State University

"Dreams in the Manaqib of a Moroccan Sufi Shaykh: 'Abd al-Aziz ad-Dabbagh (d. 1719)"

John C. Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University

"An Early Muslim Autobiographical Dream Narrative: Abu Ja'far Al-Qayini and His Vision of the Prophet Mohammed"

Serpil Bagci, Hacettepe University

"Divination and Dream Imagery"

Olga M. Davidson, Brandeis University

"The Dream as a Narrative Device in the Shâhnâma"

Eric Ormsby, McGill University

"Dream as Prophecy in the Work of Al-Ghazali"

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