Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in the Works of Shaykh Dan Tafa

What is it about?

This article describes the theories of dreaming and dream interpretation developed in four manuscripts by Shaykh Dan Tafa, a Muslim scholar from 19th-century West Africa. Dreams were a very important part of his intellectual and spiritual life and his account of how dreams occur and what they can mean tells us a great deal about how he and others in his society and intellectual tradition understood psychology, cosmology, epistemology, and metaphysics.

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