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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 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.
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Information
Thresholds
of
Interpretation
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is
praised
as
the
first
Muslim
dream
interpreter,
and
his
interpretations
of
specific
dreams
are
recorded
in
hadiths.
Ab
ü
Bakr,
a
companion
of
the
Prophet
and
the
first
caliph,
was
known
to
interpret
dreams,
and
so
was
Asm
ä´
,
Ab
ü
Bakr’s
daughter.
While
in
the
early
centuries
principally
spe-
cialists
in
hadith
concerned
themselves
with
dreams,
by
the
tenth
century
also
philosophers
and
mystics
became
engaged
with
the
emerging
tradition
of
Muslim
dream
interpretation,
a
tradition
that
furthermore
came
to
be
much
influenced
by
Artemidorus’s
Oneirocritica,
a
Greek
work
written
in
the
second
century
and
translated
into
Arabic
in
the
ninth
century.
In
the
tenth
century
al-Khall
ä
l
composed
a
biographical
dictionary
titled
T
abaq
ä
t
al-Mu
`
abbir
ï
n
(The
Classes
of
Dream
Interpreters),
no
longer
Figure
2.
Shaykh
Nabil
at
the
threshold
of
Ibn
S
ï
r
ï
n’s
shrine.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of 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