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Love of learning as a humanizing pedagogic vocation : perspectives from traditions of higher education in Islam

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Sahin, Abdullah (2022) Love of learning as a humanizing pedagogic vocation : perspectives from traditions of higher education in Islam. In: de Rijke, V. and Peterson, A. and Gibbs , P., (eds.) Higher Education and Love : Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Trajectories. Basingstoke ; Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-187. ISBN 9783030823702

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Abstract

This inquiry examines how the love of learning, embodying the transformative educational vision of Islam (tarbiyah), emerged as the humanizing pedagogic vocation within classical Islamic higher education. There is a large body of literature exploring philosophical, literary, theological, mystical and aesthetic perceptions of love in the Muslim tradition. Classical Islamic scholarship has attracted the attention of Western historians of Islam. These studies, however, are limited to providing descriptive accounts of medieval Islamic knowledge systems and institutions. They do not offer an educational reading (hermeneutics) of the Muslim intellectual heritage. The love of learning as a central pedagogical value in classical Muslim higher education has not been subject to systematic inquiry. The study aims to fill this gap within the emerging field of critical Islamic Education Studies and contribute to the interdisciplinary comparative research on values in higher education. The ‘crisis of legitimacy’ facing the modern university is traced to the commodification of its educational good within the economic priorities of neoliberalism and privileging the pedagogy of scientism. The inquiry argues that the love of learning in the Muslim tradition springs from the distinctive image of God in the Qur’an as the loving, compassionate educator (al-Rabb/al-Waduud) and its transformative pedagogies of self-cultivation. The study considers critically whether the love of learning in Islam can accommodate ambiguity, questioning and critical faithfulness.

Keywords
Values and Higher Education Love of Learning Islamic Education Studies Qur’an and Human Development Critical Faithfulness Decolonizing University Madrasah Tarbiyah

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
L Education > LA History of education
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Teacher Education (Aug 2017 -)
Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Basingstoke ; Cham
ISBN: 9783030823702
Book Title: Higher Education and Love : Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Trajectories
Editor: de Rijke, V. and Peterson, A. and Gibbs , P.
Official Date: 1 January 2022
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1 January 2022Published
Number of Pages: 271
Page Range: pp. 135-187
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82371-9_8
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Copyright Holders: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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