Where Islamic thought meets depth psychology and comparative philosophy. Reading keys to explore, so you can think for yourself.
Three doors into the same questioning. Choose the one that calls to you. (Theme pages are in French for now.)
Majmaʿ is written in French. These essays have been translated into English.
Where to start
New here? A suggested order: The Signs (what it means to look at the world as if it speaks), then Where Two Seas Meet (Jung and the Quran on what makes a person whole), then Meaning Despite Everything (Frankl in the camps, and the freedom that remains).
Before being a list of beliefs, faith can be a way of looking. The Quranic concept of āyāt, wonder as knowledge, and the honest limits of the argument from design.
Read · ~12 min Psychology · Religion Where Two Seas MeetJung chose Surah 18 of the Quran to illustrate individuation. Moses follows Khidr to the confluence. What they both describe: how a human being becomes whole.
Read · ~12 min Philosophy · Religion Meaning Despite EverythingIn the camps, Viktor Frankl observed that those who survived best were not the strongest, but those who still had a why. What that means for anyone facing a materialist sense of emptiness.
Read · ~8 min Today The Scroll and the PauseThe phone vibrates, the hand moves before thought. What the Quranic concept of hawā reveals about compulsive scrolling, and what persuasive design made disappear: the pause.
Read · ~6 min Philosophy · Religion Free Will and DecreeAre we free, or is everything written? The qadar debate properly framed: fatalism vs determinism, God outside time, Boethius, Laplace, and a clinical case that sharpens the question.
Read · ~20 minComing soon
In the 12th century: does reason have a place in Islam? Averroes' answer, and what it still means today.
Translation in progressJung: the unconscious, the archetypes, the Self. A ten-minute introduction to depth psychology.
Translation in progressIf God is good and all-powerful, why evil? The question posed honestly, across traditions.
Translation in progress