Psychology in Medieval Islam

Psychology In Medieval Islam

Islamic psychology or ʿIlm al-Nafs (Arabic,علم النفس), the science of the Nafs ("self" or "psyche"), refers to the medical and philosophical study of the psyche from an Islamic perspective and adresses topics in psychology, neuroscience, philosphy of mind, and psychiatry as well as psychosomatic medicine.

Concepts from medieval Islamic thought have been reexamined by Muslim psychologists and scholars in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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