Foreword
Abdallah Rothman .......................................................................................... 1
Introduction
Amber Haque ................................................................................................. 4
Part I: Cosmic Anthropology & the Innate Disposition of Man
Chapter 1
Human Natural Disposition (Fit¿rah)
Yasien Mohamed .......................................................................................... 21
Chapter 2
The Concept of Man as a "Small World"
Yasien Mohamed .......................................................................................... 33
Chapter 3
Human Nature in Secular Psychology: An Islamic Critique
Malik Badri .................................................................................................. 48
Chapter 4
Human Nature from a Comparative Psychological Perspective
Mustapha Achoui ......................................................................................... 65
Chapter 5
The Place of Human Nature in Ibn Khaldu¯n's Thinking
Mahmoud Dhaoudi ...................................................................................... 82
Part II: The Islamic Concept of Soul, Spirit & Heart
Chapter 6
Nature of Soul: The Philosophy of Mulla S¿adra¯
Fazlur Rahman ......................................................................................... 100
Chapter 7
The Nature of Man and the Psychology of the Human Soul
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas ............................................................. 113
Chapter 8
The Heart and Personality Development
Manzurul Huq .............................................................................................135
Chapter 9
Pathology of the Heart in the Qur'a¯n: A Metaphysico-psychological Explanation
Absar Ahmad ..............................................................................................154
Chapter 10
Traditional Islamic Psychology
Laleh Bakhtiar ............................................................................................164
Part III: Human Motivation and Personality Types in the Qur'a¯n
Chapter 11
Human Motivation: An Islamic Perspective
Shafiq Falah Alawneh .................................................................................175
Chapter 12
The Drives of Human Behavior in the Qur'a¯n
Yasien Mohamed .........................................................................................194
Chapter 13
The Concept of Personality in Islam
Rashid Hamid .............................................................................................212
Chapter 14
The Islamic Personality: A Sequential Model
Saiyad Fareed Ahmad .................................................................................233
