Amber Haque, Yasien Mohamed (Editors)

Abdallah Rothman (Foreword)

Paperback, 268 pages

9781737281627

This book was one of the titles selected for the Wardah Books Islamic Civilisation Book Club 2023.

This is a collection of select papers on human nature and personality from an Islamic perspective which incorporates religious and transcendental concepts based on the Quran and early Muslim scholars.

Contents

Part 1: Cosmic Anthropology and the Innate Disposition of Man

1: Human Natural Disposition (Fitrah) / Yasien Mohamed

2: The Concept of Man as a ‘Small World’ / Yasien Mohamed

3. Human Nature in Secular Psychology: An Islamic Critique / Malik Badri

4. Human Nature from a Comparative Psychological Perspective / Mustapha Achoui

5: The Place of Human Nature in Ibn Khaldun’s Thinking / Mahmoud Dhaoudi

Part 2: The Islamic Concept of Soul, Spirit and Heart

6. Nature of Soul: The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra / Fazlur Rahman

7. The Nature of Man and the Psychology of the Human Soul / Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

8. The Heart and Personality Development / Manzurul Huq

9. Pathology of the Heart in the Quran: A Metaphysics-psychological Explanation / Absar Ahmad

10. Traditional Islamic Psychology / Laleh Bakhtiar

Part 3: Human Motivation and Personality Types in the Quran

11. Human Motivation: An Islamic Perspective / Shafiq Falah Alawneh

12. The Drives of Human Behaviour in the Quran / Yasien Mohamed

13. The Concept of Personality in Islam / Rashid Hamid

14. The Islamic Personality: A Sequential Model / Saiyad Fareed Ahmad