Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy: The Power of Muraqabah

Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy is a guide for Muslim spiritual care providers, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and others who use spiritual and religious concepts, values, and rituals as novel interventions to offer culturally appropriate mental health services. Chapters lay out the practice of muraqabah as a strategy for addressing mental and emotional disturbances such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, attention-deficit disorders, and more. Using hermeneutical data, Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy presents the processes and ethics of the muraqabah technique in Islamic spiritual care and psychotherapy.

Nazila Isgandarova, PhD, DMin, RSW, RP, is a director of the supervised psycho-spiritual education program and assistant professor at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She is recipient of the Ontario government’s 2023 Champion of Diversity Award and the 2022 Order of Vaughan.