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Apr 19, 2024 · The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient Greeks, it is likely that much of ancient knowledge would have been lost.
Greece played a crucial role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world. Its rich historiographical tradition preserved Ancient Greek knowledge upon which Islamic art, architecture, literature, philosophy and technological achievements were built. Ibn Khaldun once noted; The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have ...
- 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 ...
Feb 23, 2009 · It has been advanced that the ancient Arabic translation of the Rhetoric, “edited” by Ibn al-Samh (d. 1027), traces back to the 8th century (Aouad 1989c, 456–7). Under the reign of Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) a translation of Aristotle’s Physics was made by a certain Sallam al-Abrash. Neither translation has come down to us. 3.
This situation created one of the conditions for ‘Europe’, hitherto only a term of Greek scientific geography, and, from the fifteenth century, provided the basis for a definition of a ‘European’ identity in confrontation with the Muslim Orient, and of Europe as the only legitimate heir of the Greek mind. Intellectuals of the Muslim ...
May 11, 2021 · The Islamic Reception of a Greek Idea. 11th May 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition. Fitzroy Morrissey. Falsafa, the tradition of Greco-Arabic philosophy, was born with the Translation Movement, the process by which, between roughly 750 and 1000 AD, almost all the extant works of secular Greek literature were translated into ...
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Aug 30, 2022 · In tracing psychology from its origins in early civilizations, ancient philosophy, and religions to the modern discipline of psychology, this book integrates overarching psychological principles ...
