Tag: Dreams
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Dreaming the Prophet: The Role of Visionary Encounters in Ottoman Civilization
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, a friend who had taken my recommendation to watch “Dirilis Ertugrul” shared his impressions with me. “I appreciate the Islamic elements they portray,” he remarked, “but as entertainment, I found those dream sequences tedious—Suleyman Shah appearing in Ertugrul’s dreams, sometimes Ibn al-Arabi showing up…it became quite irritating.” I responded that…