An Introduction to Islamic-Scientific Psychology

To acquaint the student with a high level overview of Islamic-scientific psychology:

1. Compare and contrast various approaches to Islamisation of psychology
2. Compare and contrast various definitions of psychology
3. Evaluate various issues and debates in secular psychology from Islamic-scientific perspective

1. Various approaches to Islamisation of psychology
2. Definitions of Islamic psychology and Islamic-scientific psychology
3. Issues and debates in psychology from Islamic-scientific perspective e.g. nature vs nurture, consciousness vs unconsciousness, observable behaviours vs internal mental processes, free-will vs determinism, and universalism vs uniqueness

To develop an understanding of the philosophy and methods of research in Islamic-scientific psychology

1. Describe briefly the traditional methodology of usul fiqh, ulum Qur’an and ulum Hadith
2. Evaluate Western philosophy of research and various psychological research methods from Islamic-scientific perspective
3. Apply biopsychosocial-spiritual models in explaining human phenomena

1. Introduction to usul fiqh, ulum Qur’an, and ulum Hadith and how they can contribute to the development of Islamic-scientific psychology.
2. Positivism, social constructionism and various psychological research methods from Islamic-perspective e.g. experiment, survey, observational method, case-study, and qualitative methods together with several research issues e.g. probability in statistics, representative sample, and research ethics.
3. Biopsychosocial-spiritual model as guide to Islamic-scientific psychological research.