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



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Autore: Mittermaier Amira Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina: 154.63096216
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Dreams That Matter  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27738-7
9786613277381
0-520-94785-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460147503321
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