The Nature of Man and the Psychology of the Human Soul

This monograph provides a brief outline and framework for Islamic psychology and epistemology. It begins with an overview of human dual nature and man's relation to the Divine Covenant and the religion of Islam. The book includes an explanation of the concepts of 'choice' and 'freedom' as denoted by the Islamic term ikhtiyar. It offers a concise account and reformulation of the faculties of psychology as understood by past Muslim scholars, including explanations of human active, perceptive, cognitive, and intellectual faculties. Special attention is given to man's faculty of imagination and its relation to the World of Images ('alam al-mithal). The author also addresses the dispute concerning the pre-existence of the soul.