The Great Book of Dream Interpretation - Ibn Sirin Muhammad

Editions Albouraq 2004. Good condition

The work of Ibn Sīrīn The Interpretation of Dreams ( 8th ^century ) remains a reference in the field of oneiromancy Arabic. Several translations into foreign languages ​​have been made.

According to Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , the Prophet is said to have said that dreams should not be interpreted haphazardly. Interpretation is based on understanding the symbolism. This symbolism has universal aspects and others that are regional, because they are linked to cultures. Thus, the sight of the Sun in the dream can symbolize the father or the political authority of the dreamer's country depending on the context of the dream. The snake can indicate earthly goods,

The Prophet Muhammad is the only prophet who had the ability to interpret dreams

It is in this book that the revenge of the imagination over censorship, of playfulness over seriousness, of pathetic humanity over sacredness that has become abstract and too scholarly to support deviations and emotions will be attempted.

This is the challenge of this book: to rediscover the paths of escape through the narration of the wanderings of the soul of the disciplined Muslim in a religion that has made lucidity a categorical imperative. How indeed can we be forgiven for the audacity of someone who recounts the most ignominious perversion, the most madly sacrilegious profanation, that is to say, everything that happens to us in the depths of fantasies? Answer: it is only possible in this non-place where the innocence of the dream suspends the codes of logic, morality, and religion. Throughout this book, it is the dreamer who is afraid of the monstrosity of his dream, and it is the interpreter who will harass him to make him say everything, to flush out his self-censorship and his omissions, to untie his metaphors - so that the dream scene is finally revealed.