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Islamic education in contemporary world : traditions, rearticulations & transformation [submission invitation, special issue of Religions, edited by Abdullah Sahin, forthcoming]
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Sahin, Abdullah (2018) Islamic education in contemporary world : traditions, rearticulations & transformation [submission invitation, special issue of Religions, edited by Abdullah Sahin, forthcoming]. Religions . (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Islamic Education is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research, teaching and professional development within the Western academia. There are now state-sponsored ‘Islamic Religious Pedagogy’ departments at major universities in continental Europe. The motive behind this new interest appears to be largely political, reflecting the policy makers’ attempt to address the rise of religious extremism and the desire to engineer a ‘European Islamic religious authority’ through ‘officially’ training Muslim faith leaders and teachers. Such a top to bottom approach, however, has resulted in the creation of an academic discipline without proper theoretical integrity, methodological rigour and pedagogic diversity.
Lack of conceptual clarity is evident in frequent unqualified depictions of the field as ‘Muslim Education’, ‘Muslims in Education’ or ‘Islamic Religious Pedagogy’ and even simply as ‘Religious Education’. Furthermore, Islamic Education has often been confused with ‘Islamic Studies’, a Western framing of the study of Islam that came out of the Eurocentric discourse of Orientalism and which is still not free from controversies. In Islam, the notion of ‘tarbiyah’ offers an imagination of education as an inclusive, holistic and embodied process of facilitating human flourishing that goes beyond the confines of a cognitive focus implied by the word ‘study’ or a mere religious/moral instruction and training.
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Religions | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Basel, Switzerland | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Religions | ||||||
| Official Date: | 15 July 2018 | ||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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