The next few articles will address the charge of indoctrination that has been made against Islamic education. They will attempt to investigate and explore what indoctrination really is and why (and how) Islamic education is perceived by some to be ...

This aim of this article is to explore the debate between the two philosophies of education: liberal/secular and Islamic, as set out in this series by discussing their criticisms of each other. Outlined below are two brief summaries of each ...

It can be seen that the discussion so far that Islamic education clearly includes the education of the ‘nafs’ which lexically means, soul, the psyche, ego, self, essence, heart or mind.[1]  Liberal education tends not to concentrate upon this dimension ...

This is the sixth article in the Islamic Education Series.Click here to read part five. The First World Conference on Muslim education was organised by King Abdullah Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia in 1977 and was held in Makkah.  Muslim scholars from ...

This is the fifth article in the Islamic Education Series.Click hereto read part four. The term ‘education’ in Islam is understood and comprehended in a totally different manner to what is understood within Western societies.  As we explored, the general ...

This is the fourth article in the Islamic Education Series. Click here to read part three. It may be a surprise to many how little has been written by academics regarding Islamic education. History bears witness to the richness and ...

This is the fourth article in the Islamic Education Series. Click here to read part three. It may be a surprise to many how little has been written by academics regarding Islamic education. History bears witness to the richness and ...

This is the thirs article in the Islamic Education Series. Click here to read part two. It is imperative to differentiate the ‘aim of education’ from its intrinsic and extrinsic sense.  Intrinsic in the sense of pertaining to ‘education’ for the ...

This is the second article in the Islamic Education Series. Click here to read part 1. It needs to be understood that there are perhaps two general understandings of the word ‘liberal’ in the term ‘liberal education’. The first is an ...

The US led War on Terror, commonly understood by Muslims as a war on Islam, has resulted in close scrutiny of Islamic faith schools especially within Western liberal societies.  This has resulted in exacerbating the image of Islamic schools as ...