Dreams that Matter explores the social & 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 & ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad In close dialogue with her Egyptian interlocutors Islamic textual traditions & Western theorists Mittermaier teases out the dream's ethical political & religious implications Her book is a provocative examination of how present-day Muslims encounter & 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 & the real