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Every Sufi master is, in a sense, a psychotherapist

Freud would likely have seen Sufism as ‘nothing but psychology projected into the external world’, but to Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani, a professor of Islamic philosophy and Sufism at Cairo University, and others it was as an ethical path toward the divine. Al-Taftazani’s engagement with the Freudian tradition is just one example from the mid-20th century Arab world of the exchange between psychoanalysis and Islam. It was a sympathetic and creative exchange, involving a mutual recognition, and built on genuinely shared and deep affinities between Freudianism and the Islamic mystical tradition.

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Detail from a miniature painting of Sufi s, 1750, National Museum, New Delhi, India. Photo by Getty

https://aeon.co/ideas/every-sufi-master-is-a-kind-of-freudian-psychotherapist

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