Psychology From the Islamic Perspective Hardcover – 1 Jan. 2011

Fantastic work

One of the best books i've ever read! i would recommend everyone to read very educational, Excellent book very well written.

Fantastic book , a must for all those studying psychology

I am very happy

A holistic perspective to psychology that embraces (not ignores) the spiritual and ethical values as well as the contemporary perspectives of behaviour and experience. These areas have a major influence in human behaviour today so should be incorporated into any true and comprehensive study of mind and behaviour. Unfortunately secularism has so many limitations that we do not get the full picture of the human.The topics/views covered in the book:- difference between the secular and Islamic approaches to psychology, human nature & personality- science must be built upon religious principles and beliefs (God knows us better than ourselves)- revelation from human creator becomes the primary and most fundamental source of knowledge/understanding- science and religion work in harmony and often come to same conclusions, evidences- to disregard revelation and relying on human reasoning only, chaos will ensue- revelation should be the criteria to how sciences are judged, reasoning becomes secondary- Qur'an urges humans to ponder over the universe, to seek knowledge (including scientific) and believe through reason- the proud scientist forced into humility or denial on the realisation that what they have spent a lifetime 'proving' was expounded over 1400 years again in the Qur'anic scripture.

Dreadful book. Starts disingenuously by reducing the discipline of psychology to behaviourism and then goes on to point out its shortcomings, an odd thing to do given that behaviourism fell out of favour in the 1950s thanks to people like Noam Chomsky. Following this, the entire discipline of psychology, and all its studies and experiments, soon goes out of the window in favour of deference to The Koran. Discussions about the soul and Satan (yes, Satan) soon crop up and the book remains in theological, and at times self-help, territory for the remaining pages. They key insight I took from this book was that the author's perspective was confined to The Koran and can, it seems, only ever be confined to The Koran. This makes sense given that muslims allegedly believe The Koran to be the perfect book and literal word of god etc. What puzzled me was: why bother studying anything other than The Koran, if all roads of enquiry (the author must surely have encountered confirmation bias during her studies) lead back to it. I am not sure if this was a lost opportunity to say something interesting or an example of a mindset too mired in faith to give a balanced critique of psychology as a discipline. In summary, if you want to skip the read, the book says: psychology is deeply flawed and misleading, whereas The Koran has all the answers.

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