1. TOWARDS
AN INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ISLAM:
FROM AL-FATIHA, THE OPENING,
TO THE GARDENS OF PARADISE
A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED
BY
JALALEDIN EBRAHIM

2. 9/11: THE SHADOW OF ISLAM

3. THE PROPHET’S ASCENSION

4. FOUR RIVERS IN THE GARDENS OF PARADISE

5. WILBER’S FOUR QUADRANT MODEL OF
INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY

8. An eco-archetypal image of the Gardens of Paradise
Transpersonal Self
Psychology Psychology
Salsabil
Feminine
Psychology
Cultural Social & Political
Psychology Psychology
Towards an Integral Psychology of Islam

9. An eco-archetypal image of the Gardens of Paradise
Transpersonal Self
Psychology Psychology
Imaginal Realms Salsabil Imaginal Self
Feminine
Imaginal Field Psychology Imaginal
Umma
Cultural Social & Political
Psychology Psychology
Towards an Integral Psychology of Islam

10. TEN KEY CONCEPTS OF SELF
PSYCHOLOGY IN ISLAM
1. Fitra (our essential self)
2. Lower nafs (our instincts, drives, complexes and sub-personalities)
3. Taqlid (emulation of the Prophets, Imams, saints and other role models)
4. Khalifa (personal responsibility and social conscience)
5. Niyya (intention)
6. Iradah (personal will and the capacity to contemplate, if not make, choices)
7. Khayal (the imagination of the mind)
8. Himma (the imagination of the heart)
9. ‘Aql (the intellect)
10. Nur (light) The Imaginal Self

11. SOCIAL & POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
THE CALIPHATE/IMAMATE
THE ULEMA
UMMA & SHARI’A
UMMA = GLOBAL INTENTONAL COMMUNITY OF ISLAM
THE JURISTS – LEGAL HERMENEUTICS OF THE QUR’AN
& EXAMPLE OF THE PROPHET
SHARI’A = FORM OF WORSHIP
+ LAWS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATION
THE WORD FREEDOM DOES NOT EXIST IN SHARI’A
INDIVIDUAL HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS ARE LIMITED
ZULM = SIN: VIOLATION OF SHARI’A
APOSTASY LAW IS A KILLER
KEY PRINCIPLE: DETERRENCE FOR MASLAHA
MASLAHA = FOR PUBLIC INTEREST
DEMOCRACY??? The Imaginal Umma

12. SPIRAL DYNAMICS
Beige: archaic, automatic/instinctive thinking, clan organization, survivalist process.
Purple: magical, animistic thinking, tribal organization and circular process.
Red: mythic, egocentric thinking, feudal organization and exploitative, dominating process.
Blue: conformist, legal, absolutistic thinking, pyramidal organization and authoritarian process.
Orange: rational, scientific, multiplistic thinking, delegative organization and strategic process.
Green: sensitive, empathic, relativistic thinking, egalitarian organization and consensual
process.
Yellow: interdependence, systemic thinking, interactive organization and integrative process.
Turquoise: centauric, integral, holistic thinking, fluid organization, inclusive process which honors
all the above levels of pre-modern, modern and post-modern consciousness.
The Imaginal Field

13. AL-MI’RAJ: THE LADDER OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
• NAFS AL-KAMILA: PURE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• NAFS AL-MARDHIYYA: PLEASING, DEVOTED STATES OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
• NAFS AR-RADHIYYA: PLEASED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• NAFS AL-MUTMA’INNAH: SERENE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• NAFS AL- AMINA: INSPIRED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS -
AWAKENING
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
• NAFS AL-LAWWAMA: REGRETFUL COMPLEXES – EMERGENCE
OF CONSCIENCE
• NAFS AL-AMMARA: TYRANNICAL DRIVES, INSTINCTS,
COMPLEXES, SUB-PERSONALITIES, DEFENSE-MECHANISMS,
NEUROSIS
The Imaginal Realms

15. FEMININE PSYCHOLOGY
SALSABIL: THE CENTRAL FOUNTAIN
THE FEMININE IN CREATION
THE SURA OF MARY
THE MARY WITHIN US
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE
THE ETERNAL SOPHIA
KUAN-YIN & WHITE TARA
MOTHER ARCHETYPE & FEAR OF THE FEMININE
THE BLACK MADONNA – THE DARK GODDESS
MOTHER COMPLEX
ANIMA MUNDI : THE SOUL OF THE WORLD
RABI‘A
THE HIJAB: THE VEIL
THE IMAGINAL EVE
The Imaginal Eve

16. An eco-archetypal image of the Gardens of Paradise
Transpersonal Self
Psychology Psychology
Imaginal Realms Salsabil Imaginal Self
Feminine
Imaginal Field Psychology Imaginal
Umma
Cultural Social & Political
Psychology Psychology
Towards an Integral Psychology of Islam

17. ARCHETYPES & COMPLEXES IN AL-FATIHA
• AL-FATIHA • THE WRATH OF GOD: SACRED
• IMAGO DEI CHAOS
• FITRA: ESSENTIAL SELF • INDIVIDUATION & FAMILY
• ALHAMDULILLAH: • HONOR & SHAME
PSYCHOLOGY OF GRATITUDE • THE UMMA: GLOBAL
• ALHAMDULILLAH: SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY OF ISLAM
BYPASS • ORPHAN
• SUSTAINER OF ALL THE WORLDS • EXILE
• SOVEREIGN OF THE DAY OF • FANTASY OF THE GOLDEN AGE
RESURRECTION: • MOURNING THE LOSS
• PSYCHOLOGY OF ULTIMATE • FATHER & MOTHER COMPLEX
CONCERNS • PUER & PUELLA
• THE STRAIGHT PATH OF SELF- • SUPERIORITY & INFERIORITY
CULTIVATION COMPLEX
• THE GARDENS OF PARADISE • CULTURAL COMPLEX
• THE PATH OF BLESSINGS, • MARTYR COMPLEX
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