Abstract
The intention of this paper is to consider and evaluate the hypothesis that Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, was inspired and guided by true night dreams (al-Ruya) to found and lead the Taliban revolution in the 1990s in Afghanistan. The paper contains small excerpts from an interview with Ramimullah Yusufzai, the well-respected British Broadcasting Corporation journalist in Peshawar, Pakistan, which offers first-hand evidence that Omar's charismatic leadership was founded on his commanders' and followers' belief in his divine guidance through night dreams. Such a belief in true dreams, commonplace throughout Islam, is based on the example of the Prophet Mohammed who is reported to have dreamt parts of the Koran.1 Thus the paper begins by outlining the Islamic metaphysical and epistemological context that facilitates Muslim belief in true dreams.
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