Domestic Violence Among Muslims A Global Perspective on Healing and PostTraumatic Growth

Domestic Violence Among Muslims: A Global Perspective on Healing and Post-Traumatic Growth offers a theoretically grounded, research-informed exploration of how Muslim women make meaning of trauma and engage in processes of healing and growth following domestic violence. Drawing on qualitative doctoral research with Australian Muslim victim-survivors, the book advances the concept of thriving with trauma as a faith-informed lens for understanding post-traumatic growth within an Islamic psychological framework. Integrating survivors’ narratives with Islamic conceptions of the self and Qur’anic and Prophetic teachings, the book examines how spiritual principles and practices shape meaning-making, resilience, and transformation after trauma. Rather than proposing therapeutic techniques, it offers a conceptual and interpretive account of healing grounded in lived experience. Positioned at the intersection of Islamic psychology, trauma studies, and gender scholarship, this book will be of interest to scholars, postgraduate students, and interdisciplinary readers seeking a nuanced, faith-informed understanding of trauma, recovery, and post-traumatic growth in Muslim contexts.