Dream Interpretation Sources
The great authorities who shaped the Islamic and psychological traditions of dream interpretation. Their methodologies, works, and key contributions.
🕌 Islamic Sources
Ibn Sirin
33 AH / 653 CE - 110 AH / 729 CE
The greatest dream interpreter in the Islamic world. From the generation of Tabiin, a student of Anas ibn Malik. Considered an unmatched authority in dream interpretation.
Imam Nablusi
1050 AH / 1641 CE - 1143 AH / 1731 CE
Great Ottoman-Syrian scholar of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Considered the most important authority in Islamic dream interpretation after Ibn Sirin.
Jafar al-Sadiq
83 AH / 702 CE - 148 AH / 765 CE
The great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) through Husayn. A great scholar of the Ehl-i Beyt tradition. Known for his unique and deep insights into dream interpretation.
🧠 Psychological Sources
Carl Gustav Jung
1875 - 1961
Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology. Deeply influenced modern dream psychology with his concepts of archetypes, the collective unconscious, and anima-animus.
Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939
Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. His 1900 work 'The Interpretation of Dreams' launched the scientific study of dreams.
The Sources Behind Dream Interpretation
The dream interpretations on our site are not produced at random; every interpretation draws on two great traditions whose roots stretch back centuries. On the Islamic side, the works of scholars such as Ibn Sirin, Imam Al-Nabulsi, and Ja'far al-Sadiq systematize the spiritual significance of dream symbols in light of the Quran and the hadith. On the psychological side, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung laid the foundations of the modern theories that read dreams as the language of the unconscious and as archetypal messages.
This page brings both traditions together in one place: methodologies, key works, and contributions presented alongside short biographies. It serves as a transparent bibliography for anyone who wants to know what our interpretations rest on. To understand your dream more holistically, you can see the classical scholars' views and the modern psychological perspective side by side on our dream meanings page.