The crescent and the couch : cross-currents between Islam and psychoanalysis / edited by Salman Akhtar.

Other author Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, ©2008.
Descriptionxix, 414 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Psychoanalysis and religion.
Psychotherapy--Religious aspects. --Islam.
Islam--Psychology.

Contents Prologue. Basic history and tenets of Islam : a brief introduction / Hamada Hamid -- The Prophet Mohammed : man, fountainhead, and leader / George Awad -- Characters. Rapture and poetry : Rumi / M. Hossein Etezady -- Vision and modernization : Atatürk / Vamik D. Volkan and Normal Itzkowitz -- Destiny and nationalism : Mohammad Ali Jinnah / Salman Akhtar and Manasi Kumar -- Ideology and aggression : Osama bin Laden / Peter Olson -- Culture. Islam and family structure / Samar A. Jasser -- Islam, sex, and woman / Shahrzad Siassi and Guilan Siassi -- Sufi perspective on human suffering and its relief / Mohammed Shafi -- Religious identity formation in the children of immigrant Muslim parents / Mali A. Mann -- Confluence. Christian-Muslim relations : the axis of Balkans and the West / M. Sagman Kayatekin -- Jewish-Muslim relations : Middle East / Joseph V. Montville -- Hindu-Muslim relations : India / Salman Akhtar -- Creativity. Some reflections on Arab cinema / Iman Roushdy-Hamady -- Oedipus of Egypt : a twentieth-century rendition of Majnun-Layla / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan -- Cultural nationalism and Indo-Muslim art / Manail Anis Ahmed -- Epilogue. Muslims in the psychoanalytic World / Salman Akhtar -- Whose side are you on? Muslim psychoanalysts treating non-Muslim patients / Aisha Abbasi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-391) and index.
LCCN 2007036298
ISBN9780765705747 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0765705745 (cloth : alk. paper)

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