The Book of Visions
Dreams, Poetry, and Prophecy in Contemporary Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amira Mittermaier (0000-0003-0723-7361, Wildlife Conservation Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247b-247b |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743807070390 |
| OpenAlex | W4230305232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
Shaykh al-Qusi is a charismatic spiritual leader in Cairo whose followers have been recording their dream visions and waking visions in a handwritten collection since 1997. Drawing on the shaykh's dream-inspired poetry and his followers' vision narratives, I describe the ways in which this community of believers understands the relationship between authorship and authority, as well as between imagination ( al-khayamacr;l ) and tradition. Dreams and visions do not circumvent idioms of the textual tradition, but in their narrative form they often mirror and reinscribe its genres. Some of the group's vision narratives emulate the face-to-face encounters of the hadith whereas others signify eruptions of a timeless truth from elsewhere, similar to the Quran. Through mirroring the sacred genres, dreams and visions bring believers closer to these texts. Just as dreams are understood through the tradition, the tradition is understood by some through dreams
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Charisma · Dream · Face (sociological concept · Habit · Linguistics · Literature · Mirroring · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Vision · African history and culture analysis · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Communication · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology
Dreams and the Miraculous
Trading with God
Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate
Islamic Televangelism
The Acoustics of Muslim Striving
Kin-Work in a Time of Jihad
Hidden Sufis and political effects of the unseen
Invisible Armies
The familiar-strange manifestation of the dead
Dreaming the path
Ethics, tradition, authority
Dreams from Elsewhere
How to do things with examples
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |