Muslim Saints, Dreams, and Veneration of Shrines

12th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Uncertainty and Disquiet)

Nanterre, France 10-13th July 2012

Muslim Saints, Dreams, and Veneration of Shrines

With financial supports of
Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL-CNRS, Paris)


Convenors

Dr. Iain Edgar (Durham University, UK)
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad (St. Andrews University, Scotland)

Papers

- Sufi Shrines and Dreams in Palestine
Aref Abu-Rabia (University of the Negev, Israel)

- Dream Visions of the Saints In Khoja Kahani Literature
Iqbal Akhtar (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

- The "Sleeping women", the Dead and the Saints: Dreaming, Dream sharing and Dream Interpretation as women´s power in Northern Morocco
Araceli Gonzalez-Vazquez (Collège de France, Paris, France)

- Encountering Hizir and Elijah: Dreaming and Healing in the Muslim and Alawi Traditions of Hatay
Jens Kreinath (Wichita State University, Kansas, USA)

- Sacred Sites, Severed heads and Prophetic Visions
Claire Norton (St Mary's University College, London, UK)

- Flashes of Ultimate Reality: Dreams of Saints and Shrines in a Contemporary Pakistani Sufi Community
Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Israel)

- Dreaming Baba, Restituting Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary (East) Punjab
Yogesh Snehi (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India)

- To Sleep or not to Sleep on a Mazar? Some beliefs regarding sleeping on saint's shrines among peoples of Central Asia
Nikolay Terletsky (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Russian Academy of Sciencies, St. Petersburg, Russia)

 

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