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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460147503321

Autore

Mittermaier Amira

Titolo

Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-283-27738-7

9786613277381

0-520-94785-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

154.63096216

Soggetti

Dream interpretation - Egypt

Dream interpretation -- Egypt

Dreams - Egypt

Dreams -- Egypt

Dreams - Religious aspects - Islam

Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Case studies

Egypt - Religion

Egypt -- Religion

Ethnopsychology - Egypt

Ethnopsychology -- Egypt

Dreams - Islam - Religious aspects - Egypt

Ethnopsychology

Social Sciences

Parapsychology & Occult Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliterations and Translations -- Prelude -- Introduction: Studying Dreams in Undreamy Times -- 1. Dream Trouble -- 2. Thresholds of Interpretation -- 3. Seeing the (In)visible -- 4. Poetry and Prophecy --



5. The Ethics of the Visitational Dream -- 6. The Royal Road into the Unknown -- 7. Virtual Realities, Visionary Realities -- Afterword: On the Politics of Dreaming -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad. In close dialogue with her Egyptian interlocutors, Islamic textual traditions, and Western theorists, Mittermaier teases out the dream's ethical, political, and religious implications. Her book is a provocative examination of how present-day Muslims encounter and engage the Divine that offers a different perspective on the Islamic Revival. Dreams That Matter opens up new spaces for an anthropology of the imagination, inviting us to rethink both the imagined and the real.