An Exploration of Meditation within an Islamic Understanding of Spirituality - Prof Rasjid Skinner

Rasjid Skinner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Bradford and Visiting Chair of Clinical Psychology at Karachi University.

Meditation, and its derivative, Mindfulness are problematic concepts for those who live within an Islamic tradition of spirituality. Depending on how the term is defined, meditation can be seenas a practice that may inhibit rather than open the Self to spiritual ecstasy. Rasjid presents  an Islamic view of spirituality and the Self, and examine how Meditation and Mindfulness relate to these; and whether, under other names there are types of meditation that are part of the orthodox Islamic spiritual tradition.