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Jun 26, 2018 · The key difference between Western and Islamic psychology is that while Western psychology studies the physical aspects of behavior and mental processes, Islamic psychology concentrates on their spiritual aspects.
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- 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
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- 2021
This raises the question, what would contemporary psychology look like if it had developed in the Islamic world and whose primary scholars were practicing Muslims as opposed to it having emerged from a Western secular context—would it be called Islamic Psychology?
Apr 18, 2008 · Aristotle's philosophy of mind in Islamic philosophy is a combination of what we would today call psychology and physiology, and is not limited to investigations of our rational faculty. However important, the “mind” or intellect, with its practical and theoretical aspects, is only part of the falâsifa's “science of the soul.”.
The model elaborates aspects of a mechanism for the development of the soul that constitutes a potential foundation for an Islamic theory of human psychology and has particular relevance for Islamic approaches to psychotherapy. Keywords: Islamic psychology, Islamic psychotherapy, Self, Soul.
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.
