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Jul 3, 2020 · 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 ...
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 ...
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.
contributions of prominent early Muslim scholars to psychology and outlines the challenges faced by today's Muslims in adapting to the Western theories. It also offers a few recommendations on the indigenization of psychology for Muslim societies interested in seeking the Islamic perspective on human behaviors.
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mic psychologyI. INTRODUCTIONThe Islamic discourse on psychology dates back to the early 9th century, a time that marked the accelerated exp. sion of Islamic Civilization. The pursuit of knowledge received considerable support from political rulers who recognized the significance of the prophetic injunction to.
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Dec 31, 2020 · Mental illness has existed in all times amongst all people. Psychology, the medical and philosophical study of the psych, soul or self, was recorded as early as 1550 BCE when depression was noted in the Ebers Papyrus. One of the earliest noted contributors was a Persian named Muhammad ibn Zakariya al Razi who was a physician, scientist and ...
