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CM15: Educational Reform

Jeremy Henzell-Thomas seeks an integrated approach to education and knowledge, Richard Pring answers the question – what is a university, Marodsilton Muborakshoeva examines the university in Muslim context, Abdelwahab El-Affendi thinks we need to reconfigure Islamic education, Abdulkader Tayob is convinced that educational reform must begin by reforming self and other, Martin Rose surveys the educational developments in North Africa, Paul Ashwin discovers three ways of measuring quality, Sindre Bangstad deconstructs the term Islamophobia, Ruqayyah A. Kareem argues that fiction is an important pedagogical tool,

Farid Panjwani suggests we need more than one narrative of Islam, Moneef R Zou’bi wonders why science is so conspicuously absent from all attempts at reforming education, Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi reflects on a life spent on developing the theory and practice of Islamic economics, Naomi Foyle seeks Islamic knowledge by writing science fiction, Iftikhar H. Malik, Shanon Shah, Mohammed Moussa and Merryl Wyn Davies try to grasp the significance of the madrasa, and Ebrahim Moosa has doubts about his own education.

Also in this issue: a short story by Cheli Duran, poems by the dynamic British Pakistani poet Ilona Yusuf and the celebrated Marilyn Hacker, and our list of ten key texts on Islamic education

In this issue

The Integration We Seek by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas

What route should we take through the landscape of higher education, in particular within Muslim societies? As a keen country walker, given to ...

What is a University? by Richard Pring

What is in a name? Does it pick out some ‘essence’ – an idea to which those institutions, for example, universities, claiming to ...

Researching Islamophobia by Sindre Bangstad

I have probably dedicated more time and energy to researching and teaching the topic of Islamophobia than any other academic in Norway, yet I ...

Reforming Self and Other by Abdulkader Tayob

The Other occupies a dominant place in modern Islamic educational reform. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi in the nineteenth-century urged Muslim educators ...

My Life in Islamic Economics by Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi

I have been involved in Islamic economics most of my life. At school, however, I studied science subjects, but switched to economics, Arabic and ...

Ten Key Texts on Islamic Education

You want to be happy, educated and true to the spirit of Islam? Well, good fortune smiles on you: there is no lack of great thinkers eager to ...