Islam & Education

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Islam & Education

Knowledge is absolutely central to the deen of Islam as recorded in a multitude of texts, among which is: “seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim.” This is an unqualified obligation not restricted to men and not limited to the acts of worship, and indeed not restricted to what are thought to be ‘Islamic’ sources. Thus it is certainly time to take a long and careful look at the institution of education.

It seems we have three perspectives on this:

First, an unquestioning embrace of academia and existing secular educational institutions from the creche, kindergarten and primary school upwards;

Second, a retreat from that to purely ‘Islamic’ sources, or what we might call ‘the madrasa’;

Third, a syncretic combination of both of the above hoping to gain the best of both worlds.

A fourth way is here explored by these authors: gaining from the insight of the late Shaykh Dr. Abdalgadir as-Sufi that, “Islam is not a culture, but a filter for culture,” and assiduously and critically taking the best of the Western tradition along with the most traditional possible Islamic perspective. It must be emphasised that this is not merely a theoretical text, for it emerges from communities that have consistently engaged with their own educational models, an engagement which these papers represent.

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The Islam &… Series

Root Islamic Re-education – Abdalhaqq Bewley

Educating the Child –  Shaykh Abdalqadir

A Cautious Welcome to the Learning Community – Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison

Ayyuhal Walad (O Son!) – Imām al-Ghazālī

Tarbiya – Dr. Amjad Hussain

Bildung and the Return of Culture – Ahmad Gross

Education and the Art of Matchmaking – Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison

Islamic Education versus Assimilation – Muhammad Mukhtar Medinilla

The Collaborative Couple – Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

The Essentials of Classical Paideia – Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison

For Whom the Bell Tolls – The Trojan Horse Autopsy Toolkit – Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison, Ibrahim Lawson, Jakob Werdelin, Abdassamad Clarke 

Applying the Educational Thought of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi – Muhammad Mukhtar Medinilla 

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