The crescent and the couch : cross-currents between Islam and psychoanalysis /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, [2008]
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Table of 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.