Culture and Islamic Adaptation Psychology
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The indiscriminate exportation of Western psychology to Muslim and third world countries can pose serious cultural and ideological dilemmas. When the exported commodity from North to South is physical in nature, the harm done can easily be identified; for example the quick detection of the life threatening birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide when taken during pregnancy or the flaws in the breaking system of a Japanese car. However, when the exported product is ideas and beliefs and ways of life, the indirect and sneaky damage, is often much more malevolent and long-lasting because it attacks the worldview of the recipients and it shakes their cherished beliefs.
Because of its technological supremacy Islamic and developing countries got used to wholeheartedly accepting any information coming from the West if it is under the tag of “science”. By presenting itself under this prestigious ‘mantra’ of science, students in Muslim countries swallow the kernel of psychology with its nutshell; the baby with its filthy water. The danger of this approach is greatly augmented by the shortcomings of our educational systems that discourages critical thinking and encourages the submissive acceptance of the words of the teacher and that of printed material.
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Professor Dr. Malik Badri
A product of the American University of Beirut, internationally well known clinical psychologist and the author of The Dilemma of Muslim Psychologists, Malik Badri was born on February 16, 1932 in Rufaa, a small Sudanese town on the Blue Nile. He obtained his B.A. (with Distinction) and his M.A. degrees from the American University of Beirut in 1956 and 1958 respectively and his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, England in 1961. He further obtained his Postgraduate Certificate of Clinical Psychology from the Academic Department of Psychiatry of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of London University in 1966. In 1977, he was elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society and in 1989 he was awarded the title of Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol) from the same British Society. He was awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the Ahfad University and was decorated in 2003 by the President of Sudan, Omar Albashir with the medal of Shahid Zubair which is the highest award for academic excellence.
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