Book review: Psychology from Islamic Perspective

This paper is abook review of Psycologhy From Islamic Perespective that was bought by my lovely father last year. He gave it to me because i took psycologhy for my master study.

This book was published by International Islamic Publishing House and wrote by Ustadzah Aisha from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2011. From the cover, we can see that its using hard cover and looked good and cool but also seems pretty weight to take out everywhere. But, when we study the insight, i think it’s pretty worth it. The paper that used was yellow coloured and has good quality. For a glance look, this book is really cool.

The language that used is easy, the english is light and the explanation is easy to understood. Whoever read this book, even they not a scholars or some student collages, it still be easy for them to understand this book.

The thickness of this book is volumed 351 pages. For some first pages, it contains table of content that have pretty long list and take 4 pages to write all those list. After that, there are list of Pronouciation and Transliteration Chart who take 6 pages. I think it’s necessary to placed this kind of chart considering this book is English Language but study the islamic perspective.

The first naration before preface from the publishers is pretty interesting. This book talks about the definitiion of jihad. It explained the proper context and real meaning about jihad. I don’t know what is the correlation about psycologhy and jihad. But instead, i think the author or the publishers want to straighten the wrong perspective about Islam that have much attention about this word in non muslim community. It’s was a wise decision and i appreciate that because i know, today, this world who have so much attention to the west world, is pretty unwelcome for any islamic science or islamic studies.   

Before preface from the author, there is also a page contain Publishers Note. in this page the publishers tells us that psychology is one of the human nature but also flustered when we look at some psycology theories, who underlies to the secular theories, is not give us enough satifaction. So, Dr Aisha work is one of the solution of this confused.

Next, finally we reach the Preface from the author. It’s interesting because she explain her experience when she was student of psychology in United States. Automatically, she studied about the secular theories first before she wrote this book. First, i think this author was a student collage from some religious university in Arab, but my asumption is totally wrong and it’s amazing to know that she didn’t let herself drown in secular theories and still using Islam to lean on.  Cool.

On her preface, she tells about the modern psychology now had pointing the effect of religousity in the lives of individuals. it’s gladly to know that they found spirituality as an extremly beneficial factor in preventing, managing, and recovering from emotional, psychological and phsycal illnesses. This reaserch, in reality, point to the truth of Islam. MasyaAllah J 

Well, it’s nice to see when she end her preface with an ayat:

We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all thing, a Witness? 

(41; 53)

That’s some short opening about this book, well, i hope you’ll enjoy this review so you can get the knowledge withour read all the pages. See you in next review, happy reading O Readers!