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Understanding Islamic Perspective of Mental Health and Psychotherapy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi --- University of the Punjab,This paper is an attempt to provide foundational information about Islamic perspective of mental health and psychotherapy. It further highlights the historical contribution of Muslim philosophers and physicians to the field of psychotherapy. In the aftermath of the 9/11 and... -
The Islamic Careline Ladies Lifeskills Program: An Empowerment Initiative
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe Islamic Careline established a Ladies Lifeskills program in response to a shared view by clients, volunteers and management at the Careline that females within the community were experiencing feelings of disempowerment and low self esteem. In practice, the program... -
Perceptions of Violence and Crime as Aggression by Turkish—Islamic Families in Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Estelle August --- University of Johannesburg, Chris Myburgh --- University of Johannesburg, Marie Poggenpoel --- University of Johannesburg,This study explored perceptions of aggression of Turkish-Islamic families with adolescent children in a large South African city. Participants were from four Turkish families with adolescent children (father = 4, mothers = 4; children = 5). Data were collected via... -
Moral Developmental Scale in Iranian Culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Davood Manavipour --- Islamic Azad University, IranThe study explored the structure of Moral Developmental Scale in Iranian Islamic culture. Participants were 380 Data were analyzed using Principal component analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Principal component analysis resulted in four components with Eigen values >1, which together... -
South African Muslim Psychologists' Perceptions of Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, aheera Ismail --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study explored perceptions of mental illness in a sample of 10 female Muslim psychologists in a South African city to determine the influences of religion (and Islam specifically) on their understanding of the aetiology and treatment of mental illness... -
The importance of interdisciplinary collaborative research in responding to HIV/AIDS vulnerability in rural Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Roos Willems --- Department Social and Cultural Anthropology, BelgiumHIV prevalence in Senegal is less than 1%, a success generally attributed to the country's quick response to the nascent epidemic of the 1980s and its continued efforts to curtail the spread of HIV. However, as the bulk of the... -
A comparison of the performance of the FTSE South Africa Islamic Index to the conventional market (JSE) in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Riaz Dhai --- School of Accounting, Economics & Finance, South AfricaOver the past four decades there has been a growing interest in the emerging field of Islamic finance and investment (IFI) in South Africa and more generally in other parts of the Western world. One of the distinguishing features of... -
Aesthetics of Muslim public and community formations in Cape Town: observations of an anthropologist
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ala Rabiha Alhourani --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis paper explores the implications of the arrival of Muslim Somali immigrants for the emergence of other Muslim communities in post-apartheid Cape Town. The ethnography unpacks the complexity and diversity of Somali identity formation, their culturally distinct politics of aesthetics... -
A new sentiment index for the Islamic stock market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Muhammad Asif Khan --- Faculty of Business and Accountancy, Malaysia Rubi Ahmad --- Faculty of Business and Accountancy, Malaysia Anna Azmi --- Faculty of Business and Accountancy, Malaysia Muhammad Akbar --- Birmingham City Business School, UKThis study attempts to examine the predictability of Google search volume (GSV) and to construct an appropriate investor sentiment index for Islamic stock markets for seven United States (US) Islamic stock indices. Using principal component analysis, we construct an appropriate...