Blogging Lives in Madrassa
I joined the madarssa in 1997 and finished my studies in 2007. For the reason that my Alma mater is not characteristically different from all other institutions of the same ilk, I would not like to mention any name, thereby proving that I am not pursuing any personal vendetta. Three days after I started learning […]
Blogging Lives in Madrassa
From the clutches of a madrassa. – Anonymous I joined the madarssa in 1997 and finished my studies in 2007. For the reason that my Alma mater is not characteristically different from all other institutions of the same ilk, I would not like to mention any name, thereby proving that I am not pursuing any […]
Intellectual Vitality as the Ideal Educational Climate
In 2009, my book Tradition and Future of Islamic Education appeared (Münster: Waxmann). The contemporary Dutch Islam debate is permeated by a caricatured opposition between reason and religion, and this prompted me to write the book. As a philosopher of education, schooled in the modern western discipline of education, I was happy to discover several […]
Education: What the Nomads Have to Teach Us
The lecture begins on an intense personal note. Sheik Hamza Yusuf narrates his own experience at school. He vividly remembers the moment when he was subjected to false testimony and that was when he started to think about justice and injustice. He remembers the bullying in the form of hazing (ragging) he underwent when he […]
On Alternative Thoughts and Models
Paulo Friere did not have to read the abridged children’s version of Les Miserables from his school text books. He was brought up in one of the extremely impoverished neighbourhoods in Recife, Brazil, and poverty was his childhood friend. He belonged to the “wretched of the earth”, in strikingly miserable ways. Unsurprisingly, the fight […]
Towards A Knowledge Society
The portals of the University of Granada bear the following inscription: “The world is supported by four things only: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valour of the brave.” It is significant to note that in this inscription, learning comes first. “Read in the […]
Justice and Islam
This excrept from Sayyid Naquib al-Attas’ Islam, Secularism and the Philosophy of the Future analyses how knowledge in Islam inextricabily linked to justice and what is missing in the western epistemology [Justice in Islam is Primarily a State of Being within Man Himself] “In Islam – because for it religion encompasses life in its entirety […]
Islamization of Knowledge: A Response
The subject addressed here is obviously not new to the readership. It has been discussed, written about and, I think, debated in this journal and elsewhere for some time. My aim in the following pages is to give this subject a perspective based upon my own experiences in both Islamic and Western learning. I. Ilm […]
In search of the Undivided Knowledge
The two quarters that appear to be seriously pondering the philosophy of education are what we can loosely call ‘religious intelligentsia’ on the one hand and the proponents of alternative education on the other. The secular, liberal tradition of knowledge, because of the fact that it is shorn of spiritual or ontological content of education […]
T-Shirt Discourse Against Islamophobia
Humour has become a bold expression in culture to the Islamophic responses the world over. T-shirts with humorous, yet culturally significant, slogans have lately been into the market to dispel the propopganda against Islam. It’s in this context that the works of design moulavi deserves mention. See what design moulavi has to say on this: […]
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