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التَّعَلُّق

New Islamic Psychology Attachment Theory 14 min read

Allah as Secure Base: Attachment Theory, Divine Relationship, and Healing Relational Wounds

How Islamic spirituality completes what secular attachment therapy cannot. Integrating Bowlby's attachment theory with Qur'anic concepts and Imam Ali's portrait of the God-conscious.

February 7, 2026 • Read Article →

التَّوْبَة

Islamic Psychology Moral Injury 15 min read

The Weight of the Wound: Moral Injury, Guilt, and the Restoration of Tawba

When therapy helps you feel better but cannot tell you whether you should: how Imam Ali's six conditions of repentance address what secular psychology cannot.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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الدليل

Islamic Psychology Evidence-Based Practice 10 min read

The Empirical Void: Islamic Psychology's Evidence Problem

Islamic psychology has 1400 years of wisdom and almost no clinical trials. A practitioner examines why this gap matters and what we can do about it.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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زيارة وارث

Islamic Psychology Narrative Identity Cognitive Restructuring 25 min read

Cognitive Restructuring and the Architecture of Meaning: Ziyarat Warith

A clinical-theological analysis of how Ziyarat Warith functions as a sophisticated psychospiritual mechanism for narrative identity transformation and meaning-making.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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عزاء

Revised Part 1 of 4 Azadari & Grief Trauma Science 20 min read

The Divine Architecture of Grief: How Azadari Anticipated Trauma Science

Exploring how Shia mourning rituals function as an integrated framework for grief processing—cognitive, somatic, relational, existential, and political—that aligns with contemporary neuroscience. Now with in-text citations and series structure.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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علم النفس

Islamic Psychology Faith & Therapy Revised 20 min read

The Science of the Soul: Integrating Nahj al-Balagha's Wisdom with Contemporary Psychotherapy

A comprehensive clinical framework for integrating Muhasaba, Fitrah, the three states of the Nafs, and evidence-based mental health care.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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الوَسْوَاس

Islamic Psychology OCD Treatment 18 min read

Breaking Free from the Prison of Doubt: Shia Legal Maxims as Liberation from Religious OCD

How the Imams (a.s.) provided the cure for waswÃ„Âs 1,300 years before modern psychology—integrating Shia jurisprudential maxims with evidence-based treatment.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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الفطرة

Social Justice Muslim Mental Health 15 min read

The Silenced Soul: Navigating Epistemic Injustice and the Crisis of Muslim Acculturation

Exploring the psychological and spiritual violence enacted when believers are forced to choose between their authentic self and social survival.

Ali Raza Hasan Ali

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Latest Writing

Allah as Secure Base: Attachment Theory, Divine Relationship, and Healing Relational Wounds

The Weight of the Wound: Moral Injury, Guilt, and the Restoration of Tawba

The Empirical Void: Islamic Psychology's Evidence Problem

Cognitive Restructuring and the Architecture of Meaning: Ziyarat Warith

The Divine Architecture of Grief: How Azadari Anticipated Trauma Science

The Science of the Soul: Integrating Nahj al-Balagha's Wisdom with Contemporary Psychotherapy

Breaking Free from the Prison of Doubt: Shia Legal Maxims as Liberation from Religious OCD

The Silenced Soul: Navigating Epistemic Injustice and the Crisis of Muslim Acculturation

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