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UNINA9910785591803321 |
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Autore |
Mittermaier Amira |
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Titolo |
Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27738-7 |
9786613277381 |
0-520-94785-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Dreams - Islam - Religious aspects - Egypt |
Dream interpretation - Egypt |
Dreams - Egypt |
Ethnopsychology |
Egypt Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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