Description

About the Book

This book contains fifteen chapters. Chapters of this book may be considered as a set of Islamic guiding principles and spiritual ways for leading a healthy life and attaining a spiritual state. This book is concerned with the religious and spiritual aspects of behavior. This book is an attempt to integrate Islamic Theology into Psychology. It will provide new insights to the students of psychology and mental health professionals and benefit people in dealing with psychospiritual problems and behavior modification. The author of this book follows commonsense methodology to evolve and explain certain concepts like NAFSIAT, RELIGION, ISLAM, the QUR’AN, SPIRIT, JIHAD and PERSONALITY to facilitate positive behavior in Muslims that will help them veer from languishing to flourishing. This book follows a different style in writing which would capture the attention of the readers. Some of the new concepts based on acronym are presented in this book which may generate researches on the subject. As an author of this book, I can firmly say that this is a book on understanding religious and spiritual behavior and psychotherapy. This book can be prescribed to the students of psychology who will offer courses related to Islamic Psychology at the Master’s level.

About the Author

Dr. Akbar Husain is Professor and Coordinator, UGC–SAP (DRS-I) at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Psychology from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (INDIA) in 1981. Professor Husain was awarded the D.Litt. degree in Psychology in 2015 for his work on Explorations and Applications of Spirituality in Psychology. He has over thirty six years of teaching and research experience. He has successfully supervised 10 M.Phil. dissertations and 25 Ph.D. theses at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has authored, co-authored and edited 31 books, and contributed 215 research papers, theoretical articles and book chapters in National and International Journals and Books. Prof. Husain has attended and presented papers, gave Invited Talk/Lecture and Keynote Addresses in the several National and International Conferences and Seminars. He was Editor of the Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (2002-2005) and Journal of Educational Research, University of Malaya (2009). Prof. Husain is also reviewer of various National and International Journals of Psychology. He has standardized numerous psychological tests and completed four research projects. He is a Life Member and Annual Member of various National and International Associations. Prof. Husain has visited several countries for attending conferences and teaching assignments. In recent years he has been involved in conducting the researches on various topics such as spiritual values/virtues, spiritual fitness, spiritual personality, spiritual support, spiritual distress, etc. related to the area of Spiritual Psychology. In addition to this his current areas of research are: Health Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and Positive Psychology.