Abstract
El artículo versa sobre la manera islámica de comprender la muerte a partir del análisis de la narración de seis sueños. El Islam clásico concedía especial importancia a los sueños, que desempeñan un papel esencial en el desciframiento del enigma de la muerte y del morir, a partir de narraciones de sueños que tratan de sucesos cotidianos descritos de una manera sencilla, se traslucen cuestiones de la mayor importancia acerca del proceso de la muerte y del más allá. Aunque cada sueño se refiere a un caso individual, el mensaje se dirige a toda la comunidad. Este artículo trata la naturaleza edificante de los mensajes transmitidos por estas narraciones y al mismo tiempo muestra cómo de anécdotas privadas se hace un medio para transmitir el espíritu de la comunidad y establecer o definir al mismo tiempo ese espíritu comunitario.
Highlights
The compendium of dreams I have collected through the years contains thousands of figures that are mentioned mostly by name and bear personal features. These dream narrations often describe personal relationships and deal with daily private occurrences, and the notion of privacy is most evident in those that are depicted in detail
Other narrations of dreams follow other patterns, and as a matter of fact, it is hard to find a dream narration that does not fit into some pattern
The fact that we come across a variety of dream narrations based on one Hterary form, should draw our attention to the historical value of these stories
Summary
The compendium of dreams I have collected through the years contains thousands of figures that are mentioned mostly by name and bear personal features. These dream narrations often describe personal relationships and deal with daily private occurrences, and the notion of privacy is most evident in those that are depicted in detail. Despite their triviality, the message never remains within the boundaries of the personal framework. Through an analysis of these personal tales I will show how the understanding of death and the world^ in nascent Islam was reflected through, and at the same time nourished by, these personal stories and their like
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