Introduction to the Islamic Theory of Education and Teaching

About this book

Have you ever wondered about the secret behind the glaring gap between brilliant Muslim minds in engineering, medicine, and management, and their tragic lack of the simplest foundations of their religion and the rules of integrated living in their society? We have become expertly producing a "specialized" human being who is "disabled" from performing his total role as God's vicegerent on earth. Today we stand before a global educational model that failed to produce the nation's leaders of its golden ages — men who were jurist, worldly scholar, and leader in a single person. Where did this wholeness go? The essence of the problem lies in the foundation on which the educational process was built. This book reveals clearly that our current educational system still rests on Western theories whose supreme goal is producing the "good citizen" merged into a capitalist or socialist system — a human being materially independent but spiritually constrained. This worldly formation, in conflict with our innate desire (the fitra), is what led to the loss of Islamic identity and the fragmentation of soul and mind. "Introduction to the Islamic Theory of Education and Teaching" is not merely a critique; it is a bold reconstruction project that returns education to its original Islamic purpose: forming the complete vicegerent who carries revelation and reason together, and restoring the wholeness that produced the giants of this civilization.