Visions as ‘good to think’: A cognitive approach to visionary experience in islamic sufi thought

Religion

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-43

  Hermansen, Marcia K ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042599276     PISSN: 0048721X     EISSN: 10961151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reli.1996.0040     Document Type: Article

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