Recent Publications

Examining the different ways in which Egyptians experience and interpret dreams, Mittermaier introduces the reader to Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss dream interpretation as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams, and ordinary believers who experience encounters with the Prophet Muhammad, offering a fascinating perspective of the Islamic Revival and the teeming city itself. Responses to the concept of innovation are contextdependent, and the authors of whose works this book consists explore "the notion[s] and manifestations of innovation in Islam" in terms of hermeneutics, poetry, gender, and race relations and representations, perceptions of "the other," and Islam's place in the modern world. Helayati explores the cultural, social, and economic factors that lead to the migration of women from rural to urban locations, conducting extensive interviews with migrant women in Iran's northern city of Tabriz that revealed that women often had different motivations to move to cities than did men.