Research Catalog

Title

Angels hastening : the Karbalāʼ dreams / Christopher Paul Clohessy.

Author

Clohessy, Christopher Paul,

Publication

• Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

xiii, 264 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalā' event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmid̲ī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn 'Asākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʼūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story"--

Series Statement

Islamic history and thought ; 22

Uniform Title

Islamic history and thought ; 22.

Subject

• 680
• Dreams > Islam
• Iraq > Karbalāʼ
• Karbalāʼ, Battle of, Karbalāʼ, Iraq, 680
• Tenth of Muḥarram

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781463242091
• 1463242093
• 9781463242107 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021002643
• 99987415222

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries