"Based on over one hundred interviews, life-stories, and extensive fieldwork, Ninety-Nine offers insight into the varied ways in which Muslims imagine and interact with God. In the Quran and classical Islamic texts, Allah has 99 names. They describe Gods often-contradictory attributes-from Forgiving to All-Powerful, from Life-Giver to Death-Bringer-and they bring God down to earth. Amira Mittermaier follows Allah into different spaces, lives, and conversations without ever claiming to get the full picture. The book provides glimpses of continuously shifting God-human relations and lived theologies in Egypt, a Muslim-majority country that features a range of religiosities. What makes Egypt unique is that the Arab Spring in 2011 gave rise to entirely new worlds of belief and disbelief. In Cairo today, Allah shows up in unexpected places: yoga classes, overprized coffeeshops, and therapy sessions. Broken into 99 mini-chapters, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Allah.

By engaging God via the genre of ethnography, Ninety-Nine celebrates the multiplicity that is built into the Islamic tradition"-- Provided by publisher.