The Man Who Built a Science of the Mind in 8th-Century Basra Long before Sigmund Freud published “The Interpretation of Dreams” in 1899 – a book that would revolutionize Western psychology – a Muslim scholar in 8th-century Basra had already established a sophisticated, systematic, and deeply empirical approach to understanding the human mind through dreams. … Continue reading IBN SIRIN: THE FORGOTTEN SCIENTIST WHO DECODED DREAMS 13 CENTURIES BEFORE SIGMUND FREUD