MESA Award 2013

American Anthropologist, 2008

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Schooling Islam: the culture and politics of Muslim …, 2007

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2022

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2017

This chapter provides a general theory of the salient concerns affecting Muslims in education across the globe today, from Muslims in Muslim majority countries to Muslims as minority citizens. From concerns around resource investment in educational infrastructure to anxieties over curricula and pedagogy, matters affecting Muslims in education differ the world over, where Muslims in education can often conjure up more uncertainties than positives. The experience affects not only young children at the nucleus of the attention but also parents, teachers, education managers, as well as wider society. In rationalizing the political and sociological milieu in different societies, it emerges that the themes of religion, ethnicity, and gender are as significant as ideology, culture, and policy, but that they are set within the context of secularization, desecularization, sacralization and the re-sacralization of Islam in the public sphere. In order to generate a philosophical, spiritual, and intellectual evaluation of Muslim education across the world, this chapter synthesizes the apprehensions that are internal and external , local and global, and which affect all Muslims, minorities and majorities.

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Intellectual Discourse, 2021

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This paper examines the challenges to Islamic education in Muslim majority societies with special reference to the institutionalization of Islamic education. Understanding these challenges requires a discussion of the concept of knowledge and education within the Islamic worldview, which will serve as the point of departure of this paper. Given the long historical background of Islamic education in the diverse Muslim societies around the globe, this essay will limit itself to a brief sketch of these developments.

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2006

This dissertation is grounded in twenty years of personal and professional practice a s a n educator, both formally and informally and a s a Muslim activist in the West. I t is a historical and theoretical investigation of the religious and social relationship between the past and the present as they help in constructing a comprehensive understanding of Islamic education and Muslim cultures in changing circumstances and new Western contexts. I t is intended that this understanding forms the foundation for helping Muslim communities in the West to integrate successfully by remaining faithful to basic religious principles while being reformed within new host societies. The past matters. The past and the present are powerfully related and we cannot just step over our own shadows, a s Gadamer suggests. However, we can live our traditions in different ways than our ancestors did by seeing tradition a s the source for shaping or reshaping lives within a contemporary environment. This stud...

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