Toward a Framework for Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy: An Islamic model of the soul

Read an article reporting the findings from the first of three studies that make up Abdallah Rothman's doctoral research on Islamic psychology, published in the Journal of Religion and Health.

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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.