Islam and Education: Myths and Truths

by Wadad Kadi, Victor Billeh

Overview

In this timely volume based on a special issue of Comparative Education Review, leading comparative education scholars explore the world of education in Islam from the medieval era to today, illuminating the continuing struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. Islam and Education offers a rare overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education, dispelling misinterpretations and documenting the ever-evolving relationship of Islamic education to the West. It should be necessary reading for all humanists and social scientists wishing to understand the nexus between schools and societies, the spiritual dimensions of learning, and the social configuration of educational institutions.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226421872
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press Journals
Publication date:	05/15/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Wadad Kadi is Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago.

Victor Billeh is the director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in the Arab States in Beirut.

Table of Contents

Preface, David Post, Mark Ginsburg, and Heidi Ross
 
Education in Islam-Myths and Truths, Wadad Kadi
 
Islamic Reformation: A History of Madrasa Reform and Legal Change in Egypt, Indira Falk Gesink
 
“When Mu‘awiya Entered the Curriculum”-Some Comments on the Iraqi Education System in the Interwar, Period Orit Bashin
 
Be Masters in That You Teach and Continue to Learn: Medieval Muslim Thinkers on Educational Theory, Sebastian Gunther
 
Islamic Education and Civil Society: Reflections on the Pesantren Tradition in Contemporary Indonesia, Florian Pohl
 
Reclaiming an Ideal: The Islamization of Education in the Southern Philippines, Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
 
“A Modern, Integral, and Open Understanding”: Sunni Islam and Lebanese Identity in the Makassed Association, Mandy Terc
 
Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data, Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Tristan Zajonc
 
Memorization and Learning in Islamic Schools, Helen N. Boyle
 
Qur'anic Education and Social Change in Northern Morocco: Perspectives from Chefchaouen, Sobhi Tawil