Journal of Studies in Islam and Psychology; No. 3

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 To serve this purpose, researchers are encouraged to submit their unpublished, original, full-length papers for potential publication in the journal.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.

《伊斯兰心理学与心理咨询研究》之宗旨，旨在为国内外研究者提供一个智力交流平台，以探讨他们关于伊斯兰心理学与咨询领域最新研究成果。通过此举，期刊期望提升该领域在伊朗乃至全球的学术地位，并寻求解决该专业所面临的理论与实践问题。为达成此目的，鼓励研究者提交其未经发表的、原创的、全文长篇论文，以期在期刊上予以发表。期刊拟发表涵盖广泛议题的原创文章，包括但不限于：

从伊斯兰视角出发，对心理学哲学的批判性审视；
心理学在服务于伊斯兰社会及其需求中的应用；
伊斯兰社会中心理学的发展；
对以下领域的伊斯兰概念进行心理学分析：
1. 人类学，例如：被禁止的、急躁的、轻率的、挑剔的、虔诚的、忠诚的；
2. 信仰，例如：真主、复活、伊玛目制、代求、天堂、地狱等；
3. 价值观，例如：忏悔、信任、自尊、心理放松、悲伤、恐惧；
4. 伊斯兰的实践指导，例如：复仇法、祈祷、遗产、朝觐、五分之一捐献；从伊斯兰视角对心理学发现进行批判、确认和补充，提供替代表述，以及新理论的提出。

为使个体研究者与图书馆能够获取该领域最新的研究成果，期刊允许开放获取其文章。本期刊采用Magiran和Noormags保存系统，创建一个针对个人与图书馆的分布式存档系统，并允许图书馆利益相关者建立期刊的永久存档。