Islamic Psychology: from the monotheistic paradigm to a personality theory

The article deals with a number of fundamental religious postulates of Islam. They determine and identify the basics of the Islamic psychology as religiously oriented and form necessary grounds for creating an Islamic personality theory. The author highlights as crucial for building the Islamic personal theory such postulates as the Devine creation of the Universe and a human being, the providence, the freedom of will and responsibility of a man/woman in front of the God, his/her ability to develop and to perfect the personality by the purification of the soul. A special attention is paid to the analysis of the Islamic concepts of “fitra” (a natural trust in God), The Spiritual Covenant as seen in the context of the Western psychologists’ approaches to the existence of natural religious sense (preimage of the God, the wisdom of the heart etc.), human’s responsibility in front of the Transcendent, and the Divine. he article deals with a number of fundamental religious postulates of Islam. They determine and identify the basics of the Islamic psychology as religiously oriented and

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