Tradition and Future of Islamic Education
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Wilna A.J. Meijer
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Tradition and Future of Islamic Education
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH
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9783830971313
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CHF 17.80
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Pädagogik
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English
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201
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The relation between Islam and the West is the topic of an ongoing debate. The debate often leaves us with a choice between two mutually exclusive worlds: the modern West with its enlightenment and science and accompanying secular education, or else Islam and Islamic education, characterised by orthodoxy and tradition.
In the hope of promoting dialogue instead of polarisation, the author, a philosopher of education trained in the West, searches for the ideas and ideals of education, schooling and learning within Islam. Wherever knowledge and learning have blossomed, education, schooling and teaching must have flourished, too. Which educational culture was part of the highly developed intellectual culture of classical Islam?
Current-day modernist Muslim intellectuals take inspiration from this rich intellectual tradition of Islam. The perspective on the future of Islamic education in the modern context, in which the book results, utilizes their ideas. Hermeneutics, the theory of interpretation, is applied to the rereading and reinterpretation of the source texts of Islam. Hermeneutics also offers an inspiring perspective on an education that strikes the balance between tradition and enlightenment.
Contents, Editor’s Preface, Preface
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Introduction
14
A New School Struggle. The Netherlands in Debate on Islamic Education
22
An Orthodox Islamic Theory of Education
44
Qur’anic Education
64
The Changing Context
74
The Literacy Myth
85
Hadith Education
96
Fiqh Education
110
Judging for Oneself, Reading for Oneself
126
Hermeneutics of the Qur’an
146
Hermeneutics as an Educational Philosophy. A Perspective for Islamic Education
166
Epilogue
180
Bibliography
188
