The crescent and the couch
Subtitle: cross-currents between Islam and psychoanalysis
By: edited by Salman Akhtar.
Contributors: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780765705747
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and religion; Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islam -- Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-391) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Basic history and tenets of Islam : a brief introduction / Hamada Hamid; title: The Prophet Mohammed : man, fountainhead, and leader / George Awad; title: Characters. Rapture and poetry : Rumi / M. Hossein Etezady; title: Vision and modernization : Atatürk / Vamik D. Volkan and Normal Itzkowitz; title: Destiny and nationalism : Mohammad Ali Jinnah / Salman Akhtar and Manasi Kumar; title: Ideology and aggression : Osama bin Laden / Peter Olson; title: Culture. Islam and family structure / Samar A. Jasser; title: Islam, sex, and woman / Shahrzad Siassi and Guilan Siassi; title: Sufi perspective on human suffering and its relief / Mohammed Shafi; title: Religious identity formation in the children of immigrant Muslim parents / Mali A. Mann; title: Confluence. Christian-Muslim relations : the axis of Balkans and the West / M. Sagman Kayatekin; title: Jewish-Muslim relations : Middle East / Joseph V. Montville; title: Hindu-Muslim relations : India / Salman Akhtar; title: Creativity. Some reflections on Arab cinema / Iman Roushdy-Hamady; title: Oedipus of Egypt : a twentieth-century rendition of Majnun-Layla / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan; title: Cultural nationalism and Indo-Muslim art / Manail Anis Ahmed; title: Epilogue. Muslims in the psychoanalytic World / Salman Akhtar; title: Whose side are you on? Muslim psychoanalysts treating non-Muslim patients / Aisha Abbasi.