TY - JOUR AU - Abdul Aziz, Sohaimi PY - 2018/08/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Fitrah Criticism: an Islamic Psychological Approach JF - Journal of Islamic Studies, Prince of Songkla University JA - JOIS VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Academic Articles DO - UR - https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JOIS/article/view/140196 SP - 1-10 AB - <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Islamic psychology is the psychology of Self (al-Nafs) and specifically, it is the&nbsp;psychology of spirituality. The significance of Islamic psychology in literary criticism and its&nbsp;contribution to textual analysis haven’t been given their due right. This article is concerned&nbsp;with the implementation of Islamic psychology in Islamic literary criticism which is known&nbsp;as ‘fitrah literary criticism’. Fitrah literary criticism is originally based on fitrah (al-Fithrat)&nbsp;(according to Islam, fitrah is a natural state – the original state in which humans are created&nbsp;by Allah, i.e., God ). The theoretical and conceptual framework of fitrah criticism can be&nbsp;understood in the light of four principles. First, the meanings of fitrah which are derived&nbsp;from the verses of the Qur’an and Hadith. Second, the meanings of fitrah form the pattern of&nbsp;fitrah which consists of three elements; ‘aqidah’ (faith and belief in Islam), ‘ibadah’ (an act&nbsp;of worship and submission to Allah based upon the law of Allah, i.e., shari’ah) and ‘akhlaq’&nbsp;(disposition, ethics of a person). Third, as a system, fitrah consists of some related&nbsp;psychological elements, namely, Self (nafs), heart (qalb), intellect (‘aql) and spirit (ruh).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Finally, the principle of aesthetic the appropriate literary techniques which literary texts&nbsp;employ to portray the fitrah in an aesthetic manner. This article also explicates the possibility&nbsp;of applying the fitrah literary criticism to literary texts.</p> ER -