04381nam 22010335 450 991078559180332120220416003214.01-283-27738-797866132773810-520-94785-110.1525/9780520947856(CKB)2670000000067489(EBL)646813(OCoLC)712769128(SSID)ssj0000468559(PQKBManifestationID)11287078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468559(PQKBWorkID)10506628(PQKB)11057261(DE-B1597)519667(OCoLC)755976978(DE-B1597)9780520947856(MiAaPQ)EBC646813(dli)HEB31427(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918295(EXLCZ)99267000000006748920200424h20102010 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrDreams That Matter Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination /Amira MittermaierBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2010]©20101 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25850-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexDreams 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.DreamsIslamReligious aspectsEgyptCase studiesDream interpretationEgyptDreamsEgyptEthnopsychologyEgyptReligionanthropologists.anthropology.cairo.contemporary egypt.contemporary history.cultural history.divination.divine connection.divine dreams.dream diaries.dream interpretation.dream interpreters.dream theory.egypt.ethnography.freud.historians.imagination.islamic revival.islamic tradition.material life.middle east studies.muslims.nonfiction.social historians.social history.social reform.social science.sufi group.superstition.western theorists.DreamsIslamReligious aspectsDream interpretationDreamsEthnopsychology154.63096216Mittermaier Amiraauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1012897DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910785591803321Dreams That Matter2353320UNINA