Religion and Mental Health in Islam

Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 119-142

  Okasha, Ahmed ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam; Egyptian beliefs and health philosophy of life and death as part of a continuous cycle; Islamic scholars and mental health Rhazes's 'El Mansuri' and 'Al Hawi'; Psychiatrists, confronting ethical and social policy issues with religious components; Psychiatry and religion, drawing upon rich traditions of human thought and practice; Psychiatry rarely using state of the art, multidimensional assessments of religion; Religion and mental health in Islam; Religious belief systems providing explanations for traumatic life events; Rights of women Qur'anic ideals versus Muslim practice; Sigerist wrote 'Suggestion played an important part in all forms of treatment'

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888093014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470682203.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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