Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2008.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-391) and index.
- 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.
- Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis. The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and non-Muslim contributors from the fields of history, religion, anthropology, politics, and psychoanalysis. Together these authors highlight the world-changing contributions of prominent Muslim figures and elucidate the encounter of Islam with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. Moving on to matters of family, individual personality formation, human sexuality, and religious identity, they also address clinical issues that arise in the treatment of Muslim patients as well as the technical work of Muslim psychoanalysts. –BOOK JACKET.
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