Educational Modeling of Prayer Movements Based on Anatomical Principles
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024),
7 October 2025
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Page 106-116
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v10i2.39991
Abstract
Background and Objective: Spiritualism can increase the effectiveness, ease in the teaching-learning process and psychological security in students. The current study can be considered as a preliminary study on the teaching-learning process in the educational environment with a religious view on scientific issues and based on challenging the minds of students to better understand anatomical principles by modeling prayer movements.
Methods: This is a review study conducted using a qualitative and library-based method. Based on the purpose of the research, the necessary information was collected from interpretive sources and then based on keywords such as: medical education, spirituality, prayer, human body anatomy, searching on databases such as authoritative sites known for conducting library research such as MEDLINE, Scopus, PubMed, web of science and Google scholar and based on personal experience and researches as a faculty member of the Department of Anatomical Sciences. Then, the obtained information was categorized and analyzed. The authors reported no conflict of interests.
Results: Our findings showed that there is a scientific connection between anatomical principles and prayer postures, which can be highly useful in increasing the motivation and encouragement of the professors and the students in the teaching-learning process. In other words, with this kind of scientific approach to religious issues or vice versa, a student who is fascinated in finding the gap between scientific boundaries by evidence and reason, will find concrete examples in a better way and in addition, he/she will understand the wisdom of religious principles more deeply, which ultimately doubles the effectiveness of the matter.
Conclusion: With this evidence-based research, Muslim prayer postures can be considered as a new model for teaching of anatomical principles to medical students.
- Human body anatomy
- Medical education
- Prayer
- Spirituality
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