Background.By 2030, the global Muslim population is expected to reach 2.2 billion people. The representations of Islam and Muslims in the media and academic literature may unconsciously impact how clinicians perceive and approach their Muslim patients. Our study focuses on the emerging Muslim mental health (MMH) literature using bibliometric analysis, specifically social network analysis of word co-occurrence and co-authorship networks of academic publications, to describe how the content of MMH discourse is evolving.Methods.We conducted an Ovid search (including Medline and PsycInfo databases) to identify articles written in English from 2000 to 2015 that had the terms ‘Islam’ and/or ‘Muslim’ in the abstract as well as research conducted in Muslim-majority countries and among Muslim minorities in the rest of the world.Results.Of the 2652 articles on MMH, the majority (65.6%) focused on describing psychopathology; the minority (11.2%) focused on issues around stigma, religiosity, spirituality, identity, or acculturation. Among the top 15 most frequent terms in abstracts were ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’, ‘violence’, ‘fear’, ‘trauma’, and ‘war’. Social network analysis showed there was little collaborative work across regions.Conclusions.The challenges of producing MMH research are similar to the challenges faced across global mental health research. Much of the MMH research reflects regional challenges such as the impact of conflict and violence on mental health. Continued efforts to develop global mental health researchers through cross-cultural exchanges, academic journals' dedicated sections and programs for global mental health recruitment, and online training are needed to address the gap in research and collaborations.

Shihab is a scholar who has produced a comprehensive 30-chapter exegesis entitled Tafsir Al-Mishbah. In interpreting the Qur'an, he had applied several rules that had driven him towards commenting the verses. This kind of rule is also adopted by the other exegetes to ensure their exegeses are in line with the Islamic law. Therefore, this study seeks to analyse the rules of interpretation applied by him which focuses on the discussions of al-' m (general) and al-kh (specific). To get a proper conclusion, this study has adopted the document analysis method by making language scriptures and venerated exegeses asthe main sources of reference. This is to ensure that the rules that he had employed can be analysed perfectly and also consistent with the conclusion made by the scholars. The study found that Shihab had applied seven rules related to general and specific in his methodology, and the rules have been affirmed by both scholars and exegetes.

The expertise of al-Tirmidhi in collecting the Prophetic tradition has been proven when he used the term wa fi al-bab (in this topic there is hadith) according to narrators among the companions. However, these indicative hadiths were failed to receive adequate attention of the scholars and primarily about its functions and benefits to strengthening any hadiths which explicitly mentioned in the chapter. Therefore this study aims to reveal the existence of indicative hadiths by al-Tirmidhi in various books of hadith to determine its function. The study found in the chapter on marriage, there are thirty-one (31) sub chapters which contain (108) indicative hadiths, and the values are; nineteen (19) sub chapters had sahih (sound), seven (7) had hasan (good), and five (5) sub chapters in da‘if status (weak). The study also found in the chapter on sell and buy, there are fivety-three (53) sub chapters which contain (180) indicative hadiths, and the values are; thirty-neen (39) sub chapters had sahih (sound), eleven (11) had hasan (good), and three (3) sub chapters in da‘if status (weak). The study also found the existence of indicative hadiths in Sunan al-Tirmidhi serve as mutabi‘at (parralelism), and shawahid (witnesses). Hence, the implications of this study shows that those indicative hadiths in the book of Sunan al-Tirmidhi are deemed utilizable as most of them are having the status of acceptable (maqbul). This study contribute by al-Tirmdzi significantly in the future exploration of the numerous indicative hadiths found in other chapters as they are deemed as important evidence in the execution of the Islamic law who serves as mutaba'at.