Toward a Framework for Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy: An Islamic Model of the Soul

2018/06/15 by Abdallah Rothman, Adrian Coyle · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Education and Islamic Studies #Islamic Thought and Society Studies #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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Abstract

A uniquely Islamic theoretical framework for an Islamic psychology has yet to be established. To do so requires that we understand how human beings are conceptualized within the cosmology that characterizes the Islamic tradition. This paper presents a model of the soul from within an Islamic paradigm, generated through a grounded theory analysis of interviews with 18 key informants with relevant academic or religious expertise. 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.

Citations

• Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists
• The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research.

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