Abstract

This dissertation is prepared as a systematic, theoretical treatise in the psychology of human personality, to compare one of the most recent western trends--humanistic psychology--to the Islamic point of view in terms of their approaches toward understanding the healthy human personality for our times. This dissertation also shows that what humanistic psychologists describe as healthy behavior is congruent with the objectives of Islam. Furthermore, Islam has offered guidelines upon which a new system of education must be developed to suit contemporary time and needs, if we are to emerge from the impasse in which we find ourselves. In conclusion, if Islam responds to human ultimate problems, hence man's existence, and if education is the individual's total preparation for a meaningful life, it follows that Islam gives ultimate meaning and depth to Muslim's aspirations, and that education can help to make these aspirations creatively effective, informed and intelligent. {Therefore, Islamic religion and education are both essential to the Muslim society's development.} ;Western culture and thought have affected the philosophy and moral development of youth of the present Islamic societies, creating in them anxiety and restlessness. This is due to the demands of the youths' religion and culture, and to the influence of the great mechanical and technological progress the Western world has achieved in the fields of science and industrialization. Their attraction to the fruits of modern life and materialistic progress has produced a cultural crisis. ;Many of the western philosophers, psychologists and educators, at the present time, are aware that a comfortable standard of living with its necessities and luxuries, does not produce real satisfaction within the heart and mind of modern man in a modern society. These westerners tend to believe that the problem of modern man revolves around the satisfaction of his fundamental human needs. However, in their description of these fundamental needs, the scholars neglected the most important one, which has to do with his spiritual satisfaction