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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 ...
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
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.
Jun 26, 2018 · Based on the Islamic worldview of the Oneness of God (Al-Tawhid), the spirit, the soul and the material world, some notable Islamic scholars considered humans as a microcosm of the universe as their physical and spiritual nature corresponds to that of the universe and once the humans realize this, they will come to know the world and its Creator (Mohamed 2007).
- Amber Haque
- 2018
Defining terms or discussing methods used to come up with new ones are essential components of basic scholarship. A review of a number of publications that have the term “Islamic Psychology” in the title reveals two basic trends: scholars either talk about IP without defining it, as if the reader is supposed to know what the author means by the term or as if it some clearly defined and ...
This is an overview of the contributions of theologians, philosophers and physicians to the evolution and development of Islamic psychology through the classical Golden Age and beyond. In order to understand the contributions to the development of psychology, it is valuable to examine the different scholars’ perspectives from philosophy, medicine and theology.
The second task of the Muslim psychologist is then to ensure that the science is used in accord with Islamic precept. Thus, behavioural principles can be used to treat a sexual dysfunction between a man and his wife, but not to facilitate adultery. In Badri’s definition, Islamic psychology is essentially sound empirical psychology used morally.
