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    This textbook provides an overview of Quranic Psychology, an Islamic approach to understanding the human psyche and its connection to the Divine. The author, Laleh Bakhtiar, conducted decades of research to articulate the essence of Islamic psychology. She explains that Quranic Psychology is a sacred science that differs from modern Western psychology in its ontological and epistemic principles, beginning and ending with God. It views the human self as consisting of body, soul, and spirit, and the Quran describes several degrees of the human psyche. The textbook aims to provide a culturally informed way for Muslims to address mental health concerns according to Islamic principles.

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    This textbook provides an overview of Quranic Psychology, an Islamic approach to understanding the human psyche and its connection to the Divine. The author, Laleh Bakhtiar, conducted decades of research to articulate the essence of Islamic psychology. She explains that Quranic Psychology is a sacred science that differs from modern Western psychology in its ontological and epistemic principles, beginning and ending with God. It views the human self as consisting of body, soul, and spirit, and the Quran describes several degrees of the human psyche. The textbook aims to provide a culturally informed way for Muslims to address mental health concerns according to Islamic principles.

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    Quranic Psychology of the Self:

    A Textbook on Islamic Moral


    Psychology
    By Laleh Bakhtiar, Introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
    Chicago, IL: Library of Islam, Kazi Publications, 2019
    Reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

    ‘We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and within themselves,
    until it be manifest unto them that it is the truth.’
    Qurān 41:53

    In this pioneering work, Laleh Bakhtiar (1938–2020) aims after many


    decades of painstaking research and writing on the Islamic tradition
    to articulate the essence of Islamic psychology or what she has termed
    ‘Quranic Psychology.’ For Muslims around the world it is through the
    revealed and sacred book of the Holy Quran that one finds the source
    of all knowledge. While there is still much stigma and misunderstand-
    ing about mental illness in the present day, Muslims will be pleased
    to learn that there is a culturally informed way of addressing mental
    health concerns and needs in accord with the principles of Islam.
    Islamic psychology is not about introducing religious terms or ideas
    into the preexisting edifice of modern Western psychology, but rather
    conforming to the Islamic tradition itself, utilizing its own ontological
    and epistemic principles in understanding the human psyche and its
    connection to the Divine.

    SACRED WEB 46 183


    Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – Review: Quranic Psychology of the Self

    The dominant paradigms for studying consciousness or the mind and


    behavior are largely reliant on modern Western psychology and its ways
    of knowing which marginalize or exclude other modes of knowing.The
    notion that only modern Western psychology and its science offers a
    valid or true form of knowledge is not only flawed or shortsighted, but
    hegemonic and totalitarian, having its roots in the European Enlighten-
    ment or the so-called Age of Reason. Bakhtiar informs us that this psy-
    chology or ‘science of the soul’ differs from contemporary psychology
    since ‘Quranic Psychology is a sacred science because it begins and
    ends with God’ (p. xvii) and, she adds,‘Quranic Psychology is a science
    that differs significantly from modern psychology, but, at the same time,
    meets the same criteria for a science.’ (p. xvii)
    Within each of the world’s religions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
    Hinduism, Buddhism,Taoism or the religion of the First Peoples and their
    shamanic traditions—there exists a corresponding sacred and integral
    psychology. As each religion converges in a transcendent unity of the
    Absolute, it also possesses its own psychology or ‘science of the soul’ that
    unifies in this transcendent unity but varies in its application according
    to differences in human beings.This perennial psychology is rooted in a
    sacred science, metaphysics, and spiritual principles that are connected
    to the heart of the world’s religions and their mystical dimensions.
    Bakhtiar points out the all-inclusiveness of this ‘science of the soul,’
    noting that ‘Quranic Psychology, known as the science of the soul (‘ilm
    al-nafs), draws upon many of the sciences that developed from the Quran
    including, among others, the sciences of metaphysics, medicine, cosmol-
    ogy, theology, ethics, natural philosophy and other branches of philosophy.’
    (p. xviii) The human psyche is described in the following manner: ‘Our
    soul is that by which we develop consciousness, feel, think, know and
    will and by which our body is animated, as our body is the instrument
    governed by our soul.’ (p. xvii) She adds ‘Our consciousness symbolizes
    our human reality.’ (p. 349) Bakhtiar presents the distinct degrees and
    modes of the human being:‘Quranic Psychology is the science of the self
    or nafs … [the] ‘self’ consists of body, soul and spirit.’ (p. xvii) In Islamic
    psychology there are four degrees of the human psyche as articulated in
    the Holy Quran, ascending from the animal soul (an-nafs al-ḥaywāniyah),
    the passional soul (an-nafs al-ammārah or ‘soul which incites’ to evil),
    the discerning or intelligent soul (an-nafs al-lawwāmah or ‘soul which

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