Our roundtable consists of a US-based religious studies professor, US-based psychiatrist, Canada-based doctoral candidate in psychology, and a UK-based Islamic studies scholar/interfaith community leader. Our diverse team of speakers will offer similarly diverse methodologies unified by the common theme of psychedelics in/and Islamic traditions. Our collective project of this roundtable gears toward an edited volume of a dozen or so chapters that can offer an authoritative scholarly assessment of the nascent but growing field of “Islam and psychedelics.”
A small handful of articles have appeared in recent years that focus on psychedelics and Islam (e.g, Asgar, 2025 and Rab et al., 2025), but the research is only budding and largely siloed. Our project therefore seeks to offer a coherent approach to this growing field with a set of unified but diverse methodologies, ranging from Qur'anic interpretation to subjective phenomenological experiences and original fieldwork, with qualitative interviews and data analysis.