Dr. Abdallah Rothman is the founder of Dar al-Shifaa, co-founder and President of the International Association of Islamic Psychology, and Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College (CMC). He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Board-Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), and holds an M.A. and PhD in Psychology. He is a student of the late Professor Malik Badri in Islamic psychology and in addition to his academic training has studied privately with a number of traditional Islamic scholars throughout the Muslim world. Dr. Rothman’s clinical practice, academic publications, and public speaking engagements focus on approaches to counseling from within an Islamic paradigm and on establishing an indigenous theoretical orientation to human psychology that is grounded in the knowledge of the soul from the perspective of the Islamic tradition.
