Comments on: Dream Promotion https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/ documenting the global jihad Sun, 18 May 2008 00:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.19 By: admin https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/#comment-27 Sun, 18 May 2008 00:25:21 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=38#comment-27 mah, dreams had a great deal of importance in medieval Islam. Whole manuals were written to aid in the interpretation of dreams. They were also a key part of Sufi claims to authority. And of course, Muhammad had several dreams or visions, included the ascent through the seven heavens (the miraj).

In the modern period, dreams were an important part of anti-Soviet propaganda among Sunni foreign fighters. And Lawrence Wright records in his most excellent Looming Tower that several Jihadis dreamed of airplane attacks before 9/11, even though they were not privy to the details of the operation.

]]> By: m.a.h. https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/#comment-26 Sat, 17 May 2008 19:48:48 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=38#comment-26 Sorry I went temporarily illiterate. It should have read something like “do dreams have a special role/importance to Jihadists specificity or Arabs in general (more so than in the west)?”

I am now off to google.

Thanks.

]]> By: admin https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/#comment-24 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:21:06 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=38#comment-24 Hi mah, I don’t quite understand your question. A role in the dreams?

Utaybi is fascinating. Have you read Hegghammer and Lacroix’s article? Just google their last names.

]]> By: m.a.h. https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/#comment-22 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:06:30 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=38#comment-22 Is there a role or importance for either Jihadists specificity or Arabs in general? I ask because I just read about Juhayman al-Otaibi’s mahdi dream in Yaroslav Trofimov’s “The Siege of Mecca” and another book (I cannot recall which one at the moment).

]]> By: Deus Ex https://www.jihadica.com/dream-promotion/#comment-9 Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:32 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=38#comment-9 I have read every single one of your posts that have been made thus far. My overall opinion is that your writing is excellent and succinct. You, Abu Muqa, and a select few other blogs are on my daily reading list. I highly look forward to studying your thoughts. Please, do your best to update often and keep your thoughts as they are now: objective. You are helping a future Army Infantry (hopefully) officer. Your website is a rare breed. COIN discussion is easy to come by, but a compilation of jihadi thoughts and a skilled analysis is a tremendous boon.

Thank you.

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