The central question of the book—what it means to give to God by way of giving to the poor—goes back to my longstanding fascination with all things invisible. More concretely, my earlier work on dreams and visions in Egypt had led to my interest in Islamic char..
Amira Mittermaier
Amira Mittermaier is an Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (University of California Press, 2011) and Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of California Press, 2019).