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Most of the contemporary scholarship that has been somewhat indiscriminately characterized as Islamic Psychology might better be referred to as ‘Islam and Psychology” (Kaplick & Skinner, 2017), partly due to the lack of an agreed upon definition or theoretical model (some definitions may be found in: Hamid, 1977; Vahab, 1996; Khan, 1996; Abdul Razaq & Hashim, 2012) and partly because the ...
Jan 9, 2021 · Islamic psychology is one of the religion-based perspectives which acknowledges it. This perspective has also attracted the attention of Western psychologists. Three different trends have been identified in this area: the Islamic filter approach, the comparison approach, and the Islamic psychology approach.
- Naved Iqbal, Rasjid Skinner
- 2021
Jan 9, 2021 · Moreover, we suggest that the research paradigms of Western social and behavioral sciences are useful for developing Islamic psychology. Discover the world's research 25+ million members
Whilst Al Balkhi is believed to be one of the first to advocate for the role of psychotherapy to manage mood—“gentle encouraging talk that brings back some happiness” (Badri, 2013)—he is certainly not the only one, and other early Muslim scholars are also believed to have been pioneers in the development of an early form of an Islam-congruent “cognitive therapy”.
Aisha Utz’s Psychology from the Islamic Perspective (2011) describes basic psychological concepts and covers many areas of psychology including emotions, motivation, lifespan development, social, and abnormal psychology. This book is a good source of reference for laymen as well as students of psychology, though it does not give suggestions for practical applications of integrating such ...
However, the research interest in developing a model that, in later work, could constitute a foundation for Islamic approaches to psychotherapy, as well as for an Islamic theory of human psychology, may have oriented participants (and the analysis) more to some sources (for example, al-Ghazali) than others.
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Jan 9, 2021 · The development of Islamic psychology as an accepted paradigm would allow Muslim psychologists to include wisdom derived from Islamic sources in their research and theorizing and, ultimately, would also provide novel insights and methodologies for the study of religion and human behavior in general.
