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Jan 9, 2021 · Three different trends have been identified in this area: the Islamic filter approach, the comparison approach, and the Islamic psychology approach. However, despite more than 40 years of work, there is a considerable lack of progress in the development of this paradigm.
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Nov 2, 2024 · Psychology should center on the question of who the human being is, requiring a holistic study of human qualities beyond just behavior and mental processes. This underscores the importance of exploring Quranic verses and Hadith related to human nature and behavior.
Although there is some overlap, many people conflate the field of Islamic Psychology with Muslim Mental Health (MMH), which has been a growing area of scholarship over the past decade (see Introduction in York Al-Karam, 2018).
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.
An Islam-based psychology offers a turning point as it broadens the scope of both epistemology and ontology beyond the mainstream psychology. It also offers a new definition of humanity and claims that the nature of being a human is way beyond what our psychological schools of thought have suggested so far.
Systematic, rigorous, and large-scale scientific psychological research on Muslims has been particularly sparse (Abu-Raiya, Pargament, Stein, & Mahoney, 2007). This oversight is striking given the fact that Islam represents the fastest-growing religion in the United States and the world.
There is a view that psychology should be regarded as a natural science (in the Western definition) concerned with objectively verifiable human behaviour—and, as such, is compatible with Islam and open to use by Muslims. This is essentially part of Badri’s position (Badri 1979).
