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- Understanding the origins and historical contributions of the study of Islamic psychology can serve as a first step towards providing holistic, spiritually integrated care to the oft-marginalized Muslim community and towards facilitating the revival of Islamic psychology as a holistic, spiritually integrated discipline of practice and research.
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).
- Toward a Framework for Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy ...
The model elaborates aspects of a mechanism for the...
- Toward a Framework for Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy ...
Nov 15, 2018 · Siddiqui and Malek (1996), in their book chapter Islamic Psychology: Definition and Scope, assert that Islamic psychology is “the study of persons who have complete surrender and submission and obey the laws of God”.
- Carrie York Al-Karam
- 2018
Jan 9, 2021 · The present article discussed the emergence and challenges in the development of this new perspective. Moreover, we suggest that the research paradigms of Western social and behavioral sciences are useful for developing Islamic psychology.
At first, the structure of per-sonality has been discussed through an Islamic framework; then, within a trait approach to personality, positive character traits such as kindness, humble-ness, and justice and negative character traits such as arrogance and hypocrisy have been noticed based on Qurʾanic sources.
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.
Jan 1, 2020 · The predominant focus of Islamic psychology is on the spiritual, psychological, and moral development of an individual, which can only be achieved by understanding the self and the nature of a human being (Al-Attas 1990; Ansari 1992). Thus, traditional Islamic psychology is heavily rooted in Islamic theological concepts.
To understand human nature, Islamic psychology must take, as a starting point, belief in the existence of Allah, the spiritual nature of humans, and the teachings and guidance of Islamic sources (e.g. Quran, Hadith, and the writings of medieval Muslim thinkers).
