Overview

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.

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Author:   Wilna A.J. Meijer ,  Susan Rustidge ,  Cok Bakker ,  Hans-Gunter Heimbrock
Publisher:   Waxmann Verlag GmbH, Germany
Imprint:   Waxmann Verlag GmbH, Germany
Volume:   No. 10
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9783830921318

ISBN 10:   3830921314
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   02 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I: A PERSISTENT OPPOSITION: A New School Struggle. The Netherlands in Debate on Islamic Education; An Orthodox Islamic Theory of Education; Part II: TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC EDUCATION: Qur'anic Education; The Changing Context; The Literacy Myth; Hadith Education; Fiqh Education; Judging for Oneself, Reading for Oneself; Part III: A CONCEIVABLE FUTURE: Hermeneutics of the Qur'an; Hermeneutics as an Educational Philosophy; A Perspective for Islamic Education; Epilogue

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Prof. dr. Wilna A.J. Meijer is senior lecturer at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and visiting professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium).

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