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Jul 3, 2020 · The introductory chapter (Chapter 1) looks at historiographical problems in both Islamic history and the intellectual history of the Late Ottoman period, with sections including a review of the ...
Muslim scholars from Islam’s rich intellectual history wrote about therapeutic rapport, psychiatric aftercare, and cognitive strategies for the treatment of depression centuries before their European counterparts. Many of these scholars drew inspiration and motivation for their contributions to psychology from Islamic sources in addition to empirical and rational sources. After providing a ...
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Islamic Psychology
- Avicenna's Islamic Psychology and Healing
- Al Razi's Islamic Psychology and Ethics
- Al Ghazali, Islamic Psychology and Mysticism
- Other Contributors to Islamic Psychology
- The History of Psychology and Treatment
Ibn Sina (981 - 1037 CE) was the major influence upon the history of Islamic psychology, taking the ideas of the Greek philosophers and adapting them to fit Islamic doctrine. He began with Aristotle's idea that humans possessed three types of soul, the vegetative, animal and rational psyches. The first two bind humans to the earth, and the rational...
Avicenna's theories incorporated more internal senses than Aristotle's idea of three souls, but he remained true to the Greek's ideas of internal balance. In practical terms, Avicenna's psychology led him to develop a variety of cures for mental ailments, and he developed rudimentary fear, shock and musical therapies to cure illnesses. This contrib...
Muhammed Zakariyah-e-Razi (864-930CE), known as Razi or Rhases in the West, was one of the great Islamic polymaths who contributed to many fields. In addition to his volumes of work in other areas, Rhazes made some interesting observations about the human mind. In his book, Teb al-Fonoon, he made some postulations concerning human emotional conditi...
The pragmatic approach of the Muslim scholars towards mental ailments continued, and they were the prime movers behind setting up hospitals and clinics dedicated to research and healing. The great scholar and Sufi mystic, Al-Ghazali (1058 - 1111CE), wrote the book Ihya, which pointed out that children were naturally egocentric. His Islamic psycholo...
Ibn-Khaldun (1332 - 1406CE) further added to the store of knowledge, by proposing that an individual's surroundings and local environment shaped their personality. This insightful view acted as a precursor for modern ideas, such as cultural relativism and the age-old Nature vs Nurture debate. He followed the lead of Aristotle and Ibn-Sina in believ...
The insightful views of the Islamic scholars towards mental issues saw a huge improvement upon the treatment of cases. The Islamic rulers set up specialist hospitals in Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad and other major centers across the Islamic world, by as early as the Eighth Century. Whilst this innovation did not mean that every single patient received ...
Al-Kindi between 801-873 C.E. He wrote primarily on cognitiv. functions and about the soul. Psychology, or translated in Arabic as ilm ul Nafs, the science of the self or psyche, was taught in the fourteenth century at Nishapur University, and medical psychology as we know it to be psychiatry was taught in the fif.
The legacies of ten Muslim scholars from 622 to 1492 CE (a time period in Islamic history when there was great emphasis on scientific production) are described, with particular attention paid to their impressive scholarly contributions to psychology and to their methodological foundations.
KEY WORDS: Islamic psychology; early Muslim scholars; history of psychology; Muslim psy chologists; indeginous psychology. Islam is a major world religion and there are growing numbers of Muslims in the west, particularly in North America where the Muslim population esti
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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. The present article discussed the emergence and challenges in the ...
