Islamic Liberation Psychology: The Transformational Force of Self-Development, Community Empowerment, and Revolutionary Change [Hardcover]

Islamic Liberation Psychology is a thoughtful and groundbreaking guide to liberatory and decolonial thought. The book has a wide range of uses, from individuals seeking self-development, to community organizers, to change makers generally. Chapters explore liberation psychology from an Islamic perspective and use autoethnography to frame the theory and make it more relevant and applicable.

This book makes a substantial contribution to a greater understanding of a variety of topics including anti-racism, feminism, utopianism, community development, arts and creativity, and other topics central to Islamic liberation psychology.

Islamic Liberation Psychology?is a thoughtful and groundbreaking guide to liberatory and decolonial thought.?

Sarah Huxtable Mohr?is a licensed clinical social worker and a certified drug and alcohol counselor. She is a research scholar and faculty at Alkaram Institute in Great Falls, Virginia, as well as a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Introduction? 1. The Theoretical Basis: De-ideologizing Reality? 2. The Theoretical Goal: Utilizing the Virtues of the People? 3. Self-Development: The Private? 4. Community Empowerment: The Public? 5. Revolutionary Change: The?Commons? Conclusion:?Historical Memory and Utopian Vision

Sarah Mohr brings Islamic thought into a nuanced conversation with scholarship on liberation and psychology, a discipline and knowledge formation that remains tethered to coloniality and implicated in the (re)production of asymmetric power relations. Mohr takes readers through a process of re-thinking the assumptions, practices, and scope of psychological work.

Dr. Mohammad Seedat, head of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa

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