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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).
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
Nov 15, 2018 · This chapter will outline and discuss the first two components, namely a.) a proposed definition for Islamic Psychology and the methodology used to come up with that definition and b.) a conceptual framework to ground the discipline and unite scholarship.
- Carrie York Al-Karam
- 2018
- 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
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.
- Amber Haque
- 2018
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.
After providing a working definition of Islamic psychology, this chapter explores its historical and methodological origins, suggesting that its early success was due to Islamic scriptural motivation and inspiration, as well as to some intertwining socio-political factors.
