Philosophical and psychological aspects of the attitude to death in Islam. The awareness of the inevitability of death and ways of overcoming the fear
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-2-571-584
Abstract
The article offers an overview of a series of philosophical and psychological researches regarding the attitude of a person to his death. The author compares the phenomena of the acceptance and denial of the very fact of a death from the point of view of their efficiency as psychological phenomena. A particular attention is paid to the religious perception and awareness of this phenomenon as well as compared the relationship of the categories of fear of death and religious perception of the world. The main argument is an attempt to outline the decisive aspects of the attitude to death that forms the religious faith of Muslims and the level of efficiency the Islamic creed provides to an individual to cope with the fear of death. The author has made an attempt to identify the factors, which made a fundamental impact on the Muslims’ perception of the world and its order.
Keywords
death,
acceptance of,
death,
denial of,
Islam,
consciousness in,
Islam,
death,
view of,
Islam,
psychotherapeutic functions of
About the Author
R. Sh. Safin
Center of Islamic Studies, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences,
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Renat Sh. Safin, Research Fellow
Deputy Director, Resource Centre for the Development of Islamic studies and Islamic education
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Safin R.Sh. Philosophical and psychological aspects of the attitude to death in Islam. The awareness of the inevitability of death and ways of overcoming the fear. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2019;12(2):571-584. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-2-571-584
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