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Nov 15, 2018 · Abstract In this article the author attempts to give a brief summary and critique of the various ways Islamic Psychology is conceptualized and defined. She then proposes and discusses a conceptual model, the Multilevel Interdisciplinary Paradigm (MIP), as a potential theoretical unifier for the emerging field, which also serves as a methodology for defining it. Recommendations for ways forward ...
- Carrie York Al-Karam
- 2018
These themes of balance, unity in diversity, the organic interrelatedness of the created world run throughout the Qur’an, yet it is hardly conceivable that early Islamic architects sat round together and intellectually devised these rules of design from a study of primary Islamic sources (i.e., the Qur’an and prophetic traditions). It is more plausible that the Islamic environment in which ...
Aug 2, 2024 · The Islamic classical scholarly tradition is replete with literature on a wide range of psychological themes. In recent decades, there has been a surge in the study and re-evaluation of this classical literature considering modern psychology. The purpose of this review is to typologize and examine the prevalent themes and approaches in this contemporary body of scholarship engaging with ...
Nov 2, 2024 · Islamic psychology acknowledges the value of empirical research and its capacity to provide further insights aligned with revealed knowledge. Ultimately, Islamic psychology should integrate both modern and revealed sources when studying and researching human nature. The second essential aspect is the focus of study in understanding humanity.
- 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
- pashan@uhd.edu
- 2021
The emphasis on the secularisation of modern psychology is based on the premise that religion is based upon faith which cannot be evaluated by objective methods, whereas science is based on empiricism and experimentation in order to establish facts that are verifiable. Muslim scholars have used various terms to describe the concept of Islamic ...
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 ...
