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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.
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The Islamic Psychology line integrates traditional Islamic principles and psychology to develop an Islamically orientated-approach to psychotherapy. It aims to bridge modern psychology and Islamic principles to destigmatize mental health.
- 1 Journeys Toward Justice
- 2 Intersectional Identities
- 3 Health and Healing
- 4 Acceptance and Allyship
- 5 Disrupting Dogma
Justice is an essential part of Islam and a primary struggle within Muslim populations. The Qur’an states: “God commands justice, righteousness, and spending on ones’ relatives, and prohibits licentiousness, wrongdoing, and injustice...” (16:90). Thus, Islam demands equality and social interdependence to achieve a peaceful society. Yet, Muslim comm...
Social identity refers to the ways in which people think about themselves in relation to the groups they inhabit. Proposed by Tajfel (1969), the theory states that group membership provides individuals with a sense of social belonging that divides people into “us” (in-groups) and “them” (out-groups). As the in-group generates positive descriptors o...
Wellbeing is a primary area of study in positive psychology. Rooted in the humanistic tradition of eminent psychologists such Carl Rogers (1961), who emphasized the fully functioning person, and Abraham Maslow (1943), whose hierarchy of needs focused attention on the importance of studying contributors to healthy human development, positive psychol...
The need for affiliation, originally coined by Henry Murray (1938) and popularized by David McClelland (1961), notes the importance of social acceptance in human motivation. Belonging is also a basic tenet of Maslow’s theory (1968) and serves as both an antecedent to social connectedness and a protective factor against loneliness (Baumeister & Lear...
The “Golden Age of Islam” is generally believed to have begun in the eighth century CE with the rise of the Abbasid caliphate and ended in the thirteenth century CE when the Mongol armies conquered and disseminated Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid empire (Renima, Tiliouine, & Estes, 2016). This time period is often remembered by contemporary Mus...
- Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi
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- 2021
Apr 18, 2008 · Aristotle's philosophy of mind in Islamic philosophy is a combination of what we would today call psychology and physiology, and is not limited to investigations of our rational faculty. However important, the “mind” or intellect, with its practical and theoretical aspects, is only part of the falâsifa's “science of the soul.”.
Islamic Psychology or ilm an-nafs (science of the soul) is an important introductory textbook drawing on the latest evidence in the sub-disciplines of psychology to provide a balanced and comprehensive view of human nature, behaviour and experience.
Based on this broad array of fragmented scholarship, it appears that at present, Islamic psychology is defined and/or conceptualized according to however a particular scholar understands it which is usually based on his or her own work.
Jun 26, 2018 · As the name implies, Islamic psychology is based primarily on Islamic theology and worldview. Therefore, this chapter discusses Islamic perspectives of psychology based on the Qur’an and Hadith traditions of Prophet Muhammad.
