Dreams That Matter
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Dreams That Matter

Amira Mittermaier

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Amira Mittermaier

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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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780520947856
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Anthropologie culturelle et sociale
Thresholds 
of 
Interpretation
/ 
59
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.

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