Historical, Intra-scientific and Social Factors of the Scientific Leadership in Islamic Psychology

Abstract

The relevance of the article is determined by the scientist’s need to reflect on science, its history and factors that change its appearance. Science and society today are so closely connected that the existence of one dialectically determines the existence of the other. On the one hand, the society creates a request, to which the science gives its answer, and the science sensitively captures any changes in the society, sometimes even anticipates them. The purpose of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of scientific leadership in Islamic Psychology as a branch of modern Psychological Science, which is the result of the relationship and mutual influence of historical, intra-scientific and social factors The achievement of this goal is determined by the objectives where the first is to observe the main stages of psychological problems evolution in the context of the history of Western and Islamic intellectual traditions, and the second is to review and analyze of intra-scientific and social factors of leadership in Islamic Psychology as a branch of modern Psychological Science.The material for writing the article was the theoretical primary sources and analytical scientific publications on the history, philosophy and methodology of science in general, as well as in the field of Psychology and Islamic Psychology as its branch. The general dialectical approach made it possible to consider the problem of the scientific leadership of Islamic Psychology in both historical and logical angles, and to present the history of the development of psychological problems in the mutual influence of intra-scientific (the change of scientific criteria, differentiation and integration of sciences, methodological pluralism, externalism, etc.) and social factors (dissemination of popular culture, virtualization of public relations, globalization, etc.) as a system. Comparative analysis made it possible to collate the historical and modern interaction of Islamic and Western intellectual traditions in the field of psychological problems.This study disclosed not only the reasons for scientific leadership and the growing popularity of Islamic Psychology, but also the influence of these trends on changing the image of modern science, its paradigm, which actualizes psychological research and practice in the field of religion and spirituality based on the methodological principles of multiculturalism and post-secularism.