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THE MYRTLE IN A MUSLIM WOMAN’S DREAM AND ITS LATE ANTIQUE ECHOES

    Journal of Semitic Studies LXI/2 Autumn 2016                                          doi: 10.1093/jss/fgw025 © The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved. THE EMERGENCE OF THE HOLY MAN IN EARLY ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: THE MYRTLE IN A MUSLIM WOMAN’S DREAM AND ITS LATE ANTIQUE ECHOES [1] S ara S viri HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Abstract This paper brings together an account of an early Muslim woman’s dream with texts relating to the ‘holy man’ and the spir­itual hierarchy in early Islam. Both dream account and the holy men texts were authored by the dreamer’s husband, the third/ ninth century mystic al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, in whose oeuvre the holy man, al-wali, the ‘friend of God’, occupies a central position. His writings had a significant impact on the teachings on wilaya in Islamic mysticism early and late. The dream and the texts reveal a historical and religious setting in which the God-Man co