Research view
| Title: | Al-Junun: Mental illness in the Islamic world. |
| Author: | Al-Issa, Ihsan; |
| Abstract: |
For most Muslims al-junun is madness, and the term mental illness is strictly related to Western medicine. Al-junun also reflects traditional attitudes of Muslim societies toward madness, and although it brings stigma with it, the broad use of the term as
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| Journal: | Madison, CT, US: International Universities Press, Inc, 2000. xv, 382 pp |