Journal of Studies in Islam and Psychology; No. 8

The main objective of Studies in Islam and Psychology is to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers to discuss their most recent findings related to Islamic psychology and counseling. By doing so, the journal hopes to improve the status of the field in Iran and in the world and to find solutions to theoretical and practical problems the profession is faced with. To serve this purpose, researchers are encouraged to submit their unpublished, original, full-length papers for potential publication in the journal.

The journal is set to publish original articles on a wide range of issues including;

The philosophy of psychology with a critical outlook from the perspective of Islam;
The uses of psychology in the service of the Islamic society and its needs;
The formation of psychology in the Islamic society;
Psychological analysis of Islamic concepts in areas such as:
1. Anthropology, such as: banned, impatience, hasty, captious, pious, faithful;
2. Belief, such as: God, resurrection, Imamate, intercession, Paradise, Hell and ...;
3. Value, such as: repentance, trust, self-esteem, mental relaxation, grief, fear;
4. Practical instructions of Islam, such as: qisas (retaliation), prayers, inheritance, hajj, khums (one fifth);
Study of psychological findings from Islamic perspective in terms of critique, confirmation and completion, alternative presentation, presentation of new theory;

To let individual researchers and libraries have access to the most recent research findings in the field, the journal allows open-access to its articles. This journal utilizes the Magiran and Noormags preservation systems to create a distributed archiving system for individual and libraries and to permit libraries stakeholders to create permanent archives of the journal.

《伊斯兰心理学与咨询研究》之主要宗旨，在于构建一个学术平台，供国内外研究者就伊斯兰心理学与咨询领域之最新研究成果进行深入探讨。此举旨在提升该领域在伊朗乃至全球的学术地位，并寻求解决该行业所面临的理论与实践问题之解决方案。为此，鼓励研究者提交尚未公开发表、原创性的完整论文，以供期刊潜在发表。期刊拟发表涵盖广泛议题的原创文章，包括但不限于：

1. 从伊斯兰视角出发，对心理学哲学的批判性审视；
2. 心理学在伊斯兰社会服务及其需求中的应用；
3. 伊斯兰社会中心理学的发展；
4. 对伊斯兰概念在以下领域的心理分析：
1. 人类学领域，例如：禁止、急躁、草率、挑剔、虔诚、忠实；
2. 信仰领域，例如：真主、复活、伊玛目、代求、天堂、地狱等；
3. 价值观领域，例如：忏悔、信任、自尊、心理放松、悲伤、恐惧；
4. 伊斯兰教的实践指导，例如：复仇（qisas）、祈祷、遗产、朝觐、天课（khums）；
5. 从伊斯兰视角对心理学发现的研究，包括批判、证实、完善、另类呈现、新理论之提出。

为了使个体研究人员和图书馆能够获取该领域最新研究成果，期刊允许其文章的开放获取。该期刊采用Magiran和Noormags保存系统，构建分布式存档系统，以供个人和图书馆使用，并允许图书馆利益相关者创建期刊的永久档案。