Handbook of Islamic Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Islamic Education: Historical Perspective, Origin, and Foundation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Part I: Islamic Education: Historical Perspective, Origin, and Foundation

      • Reza Arjmand

      Pages 3-31

   3. Sharī‘ah and Education: A Brief Overview

      • Abdullah Saeed

      Pages 33-42

   4. Sunnism, Shī‘ism, Sufism, and Education: A Brief Overview

      • Abdullah Saeed

      Pages 43-59

   5. Islamic Education: Philosophy

      • Mujadad Zaman

      Pages 61-75

   6. Islamic Education and Development of Educational Traditions and Institutions

      • Yahia Baiza

      Pages 77-97

   7. Waqf and Financing Islamic Education

      • Reza Arjmand

      Pages 99-111

   8. The Learned Class (‘Ulamā’) and Education

      • Yahia Baiza

      Pages 113-133

   9. Ijāzah: Methods of Authorization and Assessment in Islamic Education

      • Reza Arjmand

      Pages 135-155

3. Islam and Education in the Modern Era: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Changes and Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Introduction to Part II: Islamic Education in the Modern Era: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Changes and Responses from Islamic Education

      • Reza Arjmand

      Pages 159-175

   3. Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Islam, and Education

      • Charlene Tan

      Pages 177-188

   4. Muslim Orientations and Views on Education

      • Sherin Saadallah

      Pages 189-208

   5. Islam and the West: Clashes and Cooperations

      • Azhar Ibrahim

      Pages 209-225

   6. Islam, State, Civil Society, and Education

      • Florian Pohl

      Pages 227-249

   7. Women and Education in Muslim Context

      • Sherine Hafez

      Pages 251-261

   8. Islam, Sexualities, and Education

      • Mariam Nagi

      Pages 263-287

   9. Islam and Democracy in Muslim Educational Settings

      • Antonia Mandry, Reza Arjmand

      Pages 289-310

   10. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ummah Unity, and Children’s Rights to Education

       • Sameena Eidoo

       Pages 311-331

This Handbook traces and presents the fundamentals of Islam and their history and background, and provides a global and holistic, yet, detailed picture of Islamic education around the world. It introduces the reader to the roots and foundations of Islamic education; the responses of Islamic educational institutions to different changes from precolonial times, through the colonial era up to the contemporary situation. It discusses interactions between the state, state-run education and Islamic education, and explores the Islamic educational arrangements existing around the world. The book provides in-depth descriptions and analyses, as well as country case studies representing some 25 countries.


The work reflects the recent series of changes and events with respect to Islam and Muslims that have occurred during the past decades. The globalization of Islam as a religion and an ideology, the migration of Muslims into new areas of the globe, and the increasingcontacts between Muslims and non-Muslims reinforce the need for mutual understanding. By presenting Islamic education around the world in a comprehensive work, this Handbook contributes to a deeper international understanding of its varieties.

• sharia in a historical perspective
• Sunnism, Shi´ism, Sufism and education
• philosophy of Islamic education
• Waqf and Islamic economics of education in the Muslim world
• Ijaza – assessment methods in Islamic education
• colonialism, post-colonialism, Islam and education
• changes in Muslim orientation and views on education
• Islam, sexualities and education
• women and education in Muslim context
• Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism and education
• Islam, education and ICT
• education of religious minorities in Muslim countries
• Islam, the state, civil society and education
• Islam and the West: clashes and co-operations
• Ijaza – assessment methods in Islamic education

• Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Holger Daun

• Department of Education, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden

  Reza Arjmand

Holger Daun is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been leading different research projects on globalization, education reform and parents´ educational strategies. He has published several books and a large number of book chapters and articles in scientific journals internationally. Mentioned could be made of Daun, H. and G. Walford (eds.) (2004) Muslim Educational Strategies in a Global Context. Brill Publishers; (2008) School Decentralization in the Context of Globalizing Governance: International Comparison of Grassroots Responses. Springer; Joseph Zajda and Holger Daun (eds.) (2012) Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace. Springer; and (2008) “Islam, Christianity and Secularism in European Education” in Journal of Policy Futures in Education.

Reza Arjmand is a senior lecturer at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. Reza has conducted a number of studies and published severalbooks, articles and book chapters on Islamic education, education of Muslims at home and diaspora, everyday life of Muslims’ and Muslim urban life. Based on an empirical research, his latest book Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation (Routledge 2016) studies the notion of space production and formation of the normative and ideologically-laden gender-segregated public spaces and its usage as an instrument for the Islamization of everyday life. In his most recent monograph, “Education of the Intimate: Sexuality and Education in Iran” Reza endeavours to explore methods of acquiring sexual knowledge among Iranian youth at the absence of an official sex education.

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