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Explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. This title guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss various forms of divination as superstition, and ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad.

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"Engaging, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich." -- Anthony Shenoda Social Anthropology "[This] exploration of Egyptian dream life is a unique, if not compelling, one." Bidoun

Table of 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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 16/12/2010
      ISBN13: 9780520258518, 978-0520258518
      ISBN10: 0520258517
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. This title guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss various forms of divination as superstition, and ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad.

      Trade Review
      "Engaging, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich." -- Anthony Shenoda Social Anthropology "[This] exploration of Egyptian dream life is a unique, if not compelling, one." Bidoun

      Table of 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

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