Toward a Positive Psychology of Islam and Muslims: Spirituality, Struggle, and Social Justice (Hardcover, 2021)

 Part I - Designing and Doing Research

Chapter 2: Spiritual Assessment: Building Positive Resources for the Distressed Souls

Rabia Dasti, Dr. Aisha Sitwat, and Amna Anwaar

Chapter 3: Research with American Muslim Communities

Munir Shah and Nasreen Shah

Chapter 4: Thoughts on the GCC National Research Context: Challenges to Developing a Local Psychology

Louise Lambert, Saad Ibrahim Yaaqeib, Annie Crookes, Brettjet Cody, & Semma Saad

Part II - Connecting Secular and Islamic Perspectives

Chapter 5: Islamic Psychology and Wellbeing: Bridging Western and Eastern Worldviews

Syed Rizvi

Chapter 6: Ways of Knowing and Being: Theoretical Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi & C. G. Jung’s Psychology

Mansoor Abidi

Chapter 7: The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to a Positive Islamic Psychology

Beyhan Bozkurt and Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi

Part III - From Being to Wellbeing: Approaches to Health and Healing

Chapter 8: Islamically-Informed Principles of Psychotherapy with Muslim American ClientsNasreen Shah

Chapter 9: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World: An Existential Focus of Islamic Psychology

Syed Rizvi

Chapter 10: The Heart of Autism: Building A Positive Islamic Model of Cognitive Disability

Laila S. Dahan

Part IV - Social Justice and Community Building

Chapter 11: Socially Engaged Islam: Applying Social Psychological Principles to Social Justice, Faith-Based Activism and Extreme Altruism in Muslim Societies

Anisah Bagasra

Chapter 12: Decolonizing Muslim Same-Sex Relations: Reframing Queerness as Gender Flexibility to Build Positive Relationships in Muslim Communities

Sarah Shah, Maryam Khan, and Sara Abdel-Latif

Chapter 13: Afghan Hazara Asylum Seekers in Athens: Positive Affirmation through Service and Protest

Melissa Kerr Chiovenda

Chapter 14: The Struggle of Chosen Identity Amongst Uyghurs While Living Under the Chinese State

Kamla Hsin Tung

Part IV - Islamic Feminism, Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 15: Working towards a Positive Islamic Identity for Muslim American Women

Tasneem Mandviwala

Chapter 16: Sexually Diverse Muslim Women Converts: Where Do They Stand?Maryam Khan

Chapter 17: Muslim Media Psychology and its Effects on Society: The Role of Pakistani TV Serials in Promoting Women’s Rights

Iqra Iqbal and Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi