ISLAMIC MORALITY IN LATE OTTOMAN “SECULAR” SCHOOLS

Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies

This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investi...

Islamic Scripturalism, Morality and Everyday Life in a Kampung Tsunami

This chapter deals with the relationship between Eri, a young Acehnese man living in a tsunami affected neighborhood in the city of Banda Aceh, and his parents. I came to know Eri’s family well during my field research in the Indonesian province of Aceh in 20092010. Eri was then 24 years old. Not long before that, he spent two years at an Islamic school in Jakarta. There he felt attracted to th...

The Multiple Faces of Islamic Education in a Secular Age

Islamic chivalrousness and the place of morality in professional teaching

One case of supporting morality in the shadow of mysticism can be seen in the books of chivalrousness in which the place of morality in professional teaching has been made clear. The books are those written by the great chivalrous men in which they taught their followers how to be chivalrous when teaching professions. As is understood, one should become chivalrous before taking a profession. Th...

The Concept of an Integrated Islamic Curriculum and Its Implications for Contemporary Islamic Schools

The Emergence of `Islamic Education Movement` is a response to the `secularization of education` faced by the ummah (muslim people) all over the world; in the sense that the `traditional Islamic Sciences` which are rooted in Islamic sources i.e. al-Qur’an (the Holy Book) and as-Sunnah (Tradition of the prophet) have been marginalized. Subsequently, Muslim scholars have made serious endeavors to...