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Psychological Reflection of Dreams in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim’s Kitāb al-Ru’yā: An Analytical Study in the Light of Contemporary Neuroscience

Abstract

The chapter on dreams (Kitāb al-Ru’yā) in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim constitutes one of the most systematic classical Islamic treatments of oneiroscopy, dream taxonomy, and the epistemological status of veridical dreams (ru’yā ṣādiqah). This study undertakes a interdisciplinary re-examination of these narrations through the lens of twenty-first-century affective and cognitive neuroscience, including rapid eye movement (REM) sleep architecture, threat-simulation theory, memory consolidation models, predictive processing frameworks, and the role of the default mode network in self-referential and prophetic cognition.By mapping key ḥadīths — such as the tripartite classification of dreams (from Allah, from Satan, and from the self’s subconscious discourse), the physiological signs of true dreams, and their occurrence predominantly in the latter part of the night — onto recent neuroscientific data concerning dream generation, emotional regulation, and metacognitive insight during sleep, the research identifies striking convergences as well as productive tensions. Particular attention is given to the Islamic emphasis on dreams as a form of attenuated revelation (one-forty-sixth part of prophethood) and how this correlates with contemporary findings on exceptional autobiographical memory, lucid dreaming, and the heightened activation of temporo-parietal and prefrontal regions in spiritually significant dream states.Rather than reducing one tradition to the other, the study proposes a dialogical model in which pre-modern Islamic dream hermeneutics and modern neuroscience mutually illuminate the psychospiritual architecture of human consciousness. The findings suggest that the Muslim scholarly tradition anticipated several mechanisms now corroborated by polysomnography and fMRI studies, while simultaneously preserving a transcendent dimension that remains outside the current empirical paradigm.