Existence of Islamic Boarding Schools: Efforts to Build a Modern Education Mindset

Can Modern Information Technologies Cross the Digital Divide to Enhance Choice and Build Stronger Schools?

The Internet is a revolution unfolding before our eyes. Businesses in virtually every sector of the American economy are beginning to use the Internet to control purchasing costs, manage supplier relationships, streamline inventory, and, most importantly from our perspective, communicate with their customers more effectively. Besides the expanding use by businesses, an equally rapid rise in ind...

INCAS Neurocognitive Laboratory Four Years of Intensive Efforts to Build up Experimental Understructures for Human Subjects in Iran

Islamic Religious Education in State Funded Muslim Schools in Sweden: A Sign of Secularization

In this article the establishment of publicly funded Muslim schools in Sweden is described and analysed. This is done by reference to relevant debates about these schools as well as to the content of the extracurricular subject Islamic Religious Education (IRE), which is what distinguishes a Muslim school from other schools in Sweden. The article also raises the question to what extent the appe...

Islamic Education in Bangladesh

Mumtaz Ahmad is professor in Hampton University’s Department of Political Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ “Fundamentalism Project,” Dr. Ahmad has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Fulbright Professor in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a Vis...

Arabic and Islamic Education in Nigeria: The Case of Al-Majiri Schools

The AL-MAJIRI school system is a variant of private Arabic and Islamic schools which cater for the religious and moral development of Muslims. In the past, the system produced clerics, scholars, judges, religious reformers, eminent teachers and great men who are worthy of emulation, particularly in northern Nigeria. Gradually, the system lost its glory but continued to discharge its educational...