Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and nonMuslim contributors from the fields of history religion anthropology politics and psychoanalysis. Together these authors highlight the worldchanging contributions of prominent Muslim figures and elucidate the encounter of Islam with Christianity Judaism and Hinduism. Moving on to matters of family individual personality formation human sexuality and religious identity they also address clinical issues that arise in the treatment of Muslim patients as well as the technical work of Muslim psychoanalysts.