Abstract

It is necessary to integrate our knowledge of psychological issues with our knowledge and findings of what God has presented to us in the Holy Quran. The focus of this study is to explain and accurately understand the concept of personality from the perspective of one of the most solid Islamic documents, i.e. the Holy Quran. The present qualitative research analyzes the content of Quranic verses. Then, the content analysis process was carried out using the Graneheim and Lundman method. Seventeen verses related to the human personality were extracted, and including the similar verses, a total of 155 verses from 9 Surahs, were content analyzed. Three themes of "action", "guidance" and "path", emerged from the Holy Quran in the present study, which are the key dimensions of the personality. The discovery and identification of the structure of basic concepts such as personality, which has a great impact on the actions and behaviors of humans and, on the other hand, greatly depends on religious culture and beliefs, requires fundamental research and theorizing using religious texts. The present study, presenting the content analysis of Quranic verses regarding one of the fundamental concepts in humanities, is an example for clarifying this research approach on the Islamic religious texts.