Gabriele Mandel (12 February 1924 in Bologna – 1 July 2010 in Milan) was an Italian Islamist, psychologist, writer, and artist of Afghan descent.

After WWII (during which, along with his father, he was imprisoned and tortured by Nazis) he studied classical languages and literature and did extensive archaeological field research in India and in the Middle East, which he subsequently published.

[6] After the training he began working as a psychotherapist, an activity that he continued during his life, in parallel with that of ceramist and writer.

He wrote nearly two hundred books –many of which were translated into several languages- on subjects ranging from art history and calligraphy to Sufism.

[7] He was the author of some 200 books published by major Italian presses (Rizzoli, Mondadori, Rusconi, Longanesi, Edizioni San Paolo, Franco Maria Ricci, Bompiani, etc.