arabic dream interpretation
Maria Mavroudi, Ph.D. (1998) in Byzantine Studies, Harvard University, specializes in cultural history focusing on bilingualism and the transmission of the occult sciences in the Greek and Arabic Middle Ages
Readership
Those interested in the cultural contacts between Byzantium and the Arabs, the interaction between Christianity and Islam and the transmission of the occult sciences in the Middle Ages
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Author's Note
1. The Author of the Oneirocriticon and His Sources 1
2. The Language of the Oneirocriticon 63
3. The Manuscript Tradition, Translations, Editions 91
4. Comparing Artemidoros and Arabic Dream Interpretation with the Oneirocriticon 128
5. Dream Interpretations Common to the Oneirocriticon, Artemidoros and the Arabic Dreambooks 168
6. Syriac and Christian Arabic Dream Interpretations 237
7. The Christian and Islamic Aspects of the Oneirocriticon 256
8. Reflections of the Old and the New Testament in the Interpretations of the Oneirocriticon 353
9. Thirteen Anecdotes Quoted in the Oneirocriticon 375
10. The Oneirocriticon and Byzantine Intellectual Activity in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 392
App. 1 The Variants of Paris. Suppl. gr. 690 in Arabic Sources 431
App. 2 Interpretations from the Liber Thesauri Occulti that do not occur in the Oneirocriticon or Artemidoros 445
App. 3 Christian Passages from al-Dinawari 451