ArticleTranscultural psychiatry2020
Conceptualising and addressing mental disorders amongst Muslim communities: Approaches from the Islamic Golden Age.
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- Positive Psychology Practices in Muslim Communities: A Systematic Review.Journal of religion and health · 2025Pooled it
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- Gender, Mental Health Stigma, and Help-Seeking in Arabic- and Swahili-Speaking Communities in Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Mosques and Public Health Promotion: A Scoping Review of Faith-Driven Health Interventions.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
- Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Al-Balkhi (850-934): A Pioneer in the Field of Psychotherapy and Mental Health.Cureus · 2024Review
- Reviving the Legacy: Addressing Muslim Mental Health.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mental illness stigma and associated factors among Arabic-speaking refugee and migrant populations in Australia.International journal of mental health systems · 2023Article
- Psychological impact of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on nurses.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although Islam is the world's second-largest religion, there continues to be misconceptions and an overall lack of awareness regarding the religious and social worlds that make up the global Muslim community. This is particularly concerning when examining notions of mental ill-health, where a lack of cultural awareness, understanding, and sensitivity can impede adequate treatment. As a global religion, Islam is practiced within various cultural milieus, and, given the centrality of faith amongst Muslim communities, a conflation of religion and culture can occur when attempting to understand mental health paradigms. Whilst much of the discourse regarding Muslim mental health centres on cultural formulations, this article discusses how, historically, conceptualisations relating to medicine and mental health were ensconced within the particular medical paradigm of the day. Specifically, it considers the frameworks within which mental health and illness were understood within the medieval Muslim medical tradition and their relevance to contemporary debates in psychology and psychiatry. In sum, this paper seeks to demonstrate that cultural formulations of mental illness, often viewed as "Islamic", are distinct from historical Islamic approaches to mental health which employed contemporaneous medical discourse and which act as the reference marker for the emergent revivalist Islamic psychology movement seen today.
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