Contributions of Muslim medieval scholars to psychology

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ID13824439
AuthorsSameer Ansari (0000-0003-0561-1014, Jamia Millia Islamia, corresponding author), Nazalie Iqbal (0000-0001-5558-8938, Jamia Millia Islamia)
Year2023
Volume45
Issue3
Pages308-333
Publication date2023-09-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchive for the Psychology of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6724 • E-ISSN: 1573-6121
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00846724231197238
OpenAlexW4386605041
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited45

Psychology has been the significant discipline since the time of antiquity which becomes more consolidated during the medieval age of Islam. It had a strong foundation in the professional writings of polymaths from the Islamic Middle Ages that were eventually transmitted to the West. However, the unique psychological contributions of these medieval polymaths remained largely unexplored. Despite the growing interest in their work, which is partly due to Islamic psychology, only a handful of them have been investigated for their unique psychological contributions, and a complete examination of psychological work has not been done, separately from an Islamic perspective. The majority of them have only been examined in terms of their medical value, neglecting psychological issues in their all-encompassing approaches to care. Therefore, it was quintessential to extensively explore all those scholars who contributed to the various fields of psychology and to fill a gap of information that has been left by the previous researchers

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · History of psychology · Islam · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychological research · Psychology of religion · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics · Education and Islamic Studies · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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