Contemplation: An Islamic Psychospiritual Study

Malik Badri · Humanology

Jan 2000 · Human Behaviour Academy

About this ebook

 The first edition of this book was published in Arabic by the International Institute of Islamic thought in Cairo in 1991. Its introduction was written by His Eminence Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the President of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars. It was well received by Muslim scholars, psychologists and laymen since it succeeded in integrating Islamic spirituality and theology with modern psychology, linguistics, comparative religion and mental and physical health. It was reprinted in Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and used as a reference in Arabic Departments of psychology and education. Its second revised and updated edition was an English translation published by IIIT in London and printed by Cambridge University Press in the year 2000.

The book generated highly thoughtful positive responses from reviewers. Some of them stated that reading it had greatly improved their ability to contemplate and had improved their practice of worshipping. Muslim scholars in different countries have stressed its value to non-English speaking Muslims and have obtained permission to translate it. The book is now published in different languages of the Islamic World such as Indonesian, Albanian and Malayalam. 

About the author

The author of this book is often referred to as the pioneer of the Islamization of psychology. His famous paper “Muslim Psychologists in the Lizard’s Hole,” read at the 1976 Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists in Indianapolis, USA, and his best selling book, The Dilemma of Muslim Psychologists, published in London in 1978, have inspired many to refuse to uncritically accept Western psychological theories and practices and to revise them according to the Islamic worldview. The dilemma was reprinted many times and has been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Indonesian.

Born in Sudan in 1932, Professor Malik Badri received his BA. (with distinction) and his M. A. from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, England. He holds a Postdoctoral Certificate of Clinical Psychology from the Department of Psychiatry of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of London University, and is a Fellow and Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society. He has been a Clinical Fellow of the Behaviour Therapy and Research Society founded by J. Wolpe since 1985, and is currently Professor of Psychology at ISTAC in Kuala Lumpur.

Professor Badri founded a number of counselling centres, psychological clinics and departments of psychology in various universities in the Middle East and Africa. He is Honorary and Founding President of the Sudanese Psychological Society and President of the International Association of Muslim Psychologists. He has also been a UNESCO Expert in psychology and a WHO panel member (elected expert in the Committee on Traditional Medical Practices) and co‑author of two studies on mental health problems in developing countries.

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