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Islamic Ethics in Engagement with Life, Health, and Medicine
Salient aspects of modern medicine pose serious intellectual and ethical challenges to the Islamic conception of life, health and general wellbeing....
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Where the Two Oceans Meet: The Theology of Islam and the Philosophy of Psychiatric Medicine in Exploring the Human Self
This paper seeks to interrogate, via the notion of a mental illness, the bedrock assumptions upon which medicine and psychiatry are founded....
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African Religion and Islam in Contemporary Religious Space
Africans value religion greatly for religion permeates all aspects of their lives. To be is to be religious. Africans do not envisage any meaningful...
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African Traditional Religion and Contemporary Functionalism: Medicine
African Religion is the indigenous religion of the African people. The Religion owes its origin and development to the forebears of the Africans. The...
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Beliefs and Practices of Magic and Medicine
Among the strongly held beliefs in African Traditional Religion is the efficacy of magic and medicine in every realm of life. In some cultures and...
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Rebb Binyamin’s Gandhi: India, Islam, and the Question of Palestine
Rebb Binyamin (pseudonym of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman; 1880–1957) was a leading figure in movements that called for the establishment of a joint...
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Aleister Crowley and Islam
Little has been written on the relationship between one of the most prominent personalities of modern Western esotericism, Aleister Crowley...
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The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives
The question of health and disease is ubiquitous in classical Islamic religious writings. Motivated in part by the prophet’s history of illness,...
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Taking On the Ghazālian Challenge of Integrating Religion and Science in Islam and Biomedicine
Advances in the sciences, particularly in the biomedical and life sciences, have created a knowledge gap that leaves various Muslim lay persons...
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Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-Making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict?
Through an empirical study of the experiences, practices, and moral deliberations of healthcare users and providers, end of life care offers an acute...
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Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam, and Neoliberalism in Africa
This chapter will deal with the relationship between trauma and mental health of loss of culture and will hopefully put another nail in the coffin to...
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African Traditional Religion and the Sociocultural Environment
African Traditional Religion exerts tremendous influence on the perspective of Africans not only on the continent but also among the African Diaspora...
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Introducing Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies
The Nordic countries have witnessed the growth of various Eastern practices, such as yoga, meditation, tantra, and acupuncture, among others. These...
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Islam in West Africa: Diffusion and Growth
This chapter discusses the processes of West African Islamization as a combination of factors including the reaction of West Africans to Islam as the...
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Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project
This chapter examines intricate and varied Christian-Muslim relationships in colonized African societies. Whereas once it was assumed that European...
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The Sufi Shaykh and His Patients: Merging Islam, Psychoanalysis, and Western Esotericism
This chapter analyzes the work of Shaykh Gabriele Mandel Khan (1924–2010), artist, intellectual, writer, professor, and psychoanalyst. Mandel funded...
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Islamization, Ummah Consciousness and Mass Support for Political Islam
This chapter demonstrates how the state mobilizes Islamic cultural values and products to construct Bangladesh’s national cultural character as a...
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Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa
Christianity, healing, and witchcraft beliefs and practices have been closely connected in African history, but their relations have also vexed...
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Rastafari, Climate Change and Crop Failure in Africa
Climate change emergency and crop failure constitute urgent maladies in the African context. Paradoxically, Africa possesses vast tracts of land but...
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Illnesses and Cures
Long before the establishment of the first hospital on African soil, traditional healers have been meeting the needs of their clientele. Diagnostic...