Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

by Amira Mittermaier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258517
• ISBN13: 9780520258518
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"