School districts throughout the nation are beginning to heed calls to give students and teachers a day off in observance of the Eid al Fitr, a major Islamic holiday held at the end of Ramadan.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Islamic education
Displaying all articles
Slated for operations in 2020, Indonesia’s new international Islamic university aims to become a ‘middle ground’ Islamic institution through leveraging Indonesia’s unique culture of moderate Islam.
Dubbing Islamic supplementary schools as incubators for extremism and intolerance could be counter-productive.
Islam may predate climate change, but ancient principles can be applied to modern problems.
In Senegal, schoolteachers who are personally religious must work in a secular space that marginalises religious discourse and knowledge. They have several ways of subverting the system.
The Trojan Horse extremism affair that hit a group of Birmingham schools this summer and the ongoing inquiries into it, have raised suspicions among Muslim parents, teachers, and pupils in the UK. News…
Since Australians woke to the news of yesterday morning’s counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, Brisbane and Logan, talkback radio and the TV news have filled with talk of “home-grown terrorism” and “enemies…
If a week is a long time in politics, then the school summer holidays must have seemed like a lifetime the for governors, teachers, pupils and staff at the 21 schools at the centre of the Trojan Horse…
The controversy over the Trojan Horse allegations of “extremism” at a number of Birmingham schools has provoked much discussion concerning the need to teach and assert British values to children. There…
Allegations of an “Islamist” plot to infiltrate and take over schools in Birmingham at the centre of Operation Trojan Horse are looking increasingly thin. But they have caused a very public row between…
It is believed that at least 25 schools in Birmingham are now being investigated in response to allegations of what the media and city council are routinely describing as “takeover” bids by “hardline Muslims…
The closure of the secondary section of the Al-Madinah free school in Derby will be celebrated by those who oppose free schools and what are euphemistically labelled “faith” schools. Whatever the stated…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
-
Associate lecturer, The Open University
-
Professor (professeur des universités), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)
-
Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
-
Lecturer in Community and Voluntary Sector Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
-
Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Western Sydney University
-
PhD student in Islamic Environmentalism, Lancaster University
-
Director General of Islamic Education, Ministry of Religion
-
Senior Professorial Lecturer in Education, American University
-
Reader in Education, University of Leicester
-
Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga
