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Religious Education

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Internal political and social movements of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries neglected Islamic education within the Muslim world and allowed external secular and missionary ideas to turn it into "religious" education. Variations in worldview and interpretation of Qur'anic principles of education resulted in emphasis on form over essence in educating Muslims.

Historical accounts of Islamic/Muslim education provide a variety of perspectives on its nature and the function of its traditional institutions. Cultural and political restraints ended Islamic education as a functional system aimed at understanding and appropriating Qur?anic pedagogical principles and limited it to "religious" knowledge confined to selected males. Islamic education has recently been confused with a subject matter, "religion," or a moral, social codes, akhlaq. The primacy of formalized and juridical education over the informal development of Islamic character resulted in curricular and instructional differentiation between class and gender, a separation of "Islamic" and "non-Islamic" knowledge, and a dichotomy between ideal and practice in Muslim education.

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Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in the edited Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through Oxford University Press (see "Related to" link below). See also: http://www.eself-learning-arabic.cornell.edu/publications.htm#1

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2009

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Oxford University Press

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Internal political and social movements; Islamic vs. religious education; Essence vs. form; Informal development of Islamic character vs. formal indoctrination

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http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0212?_hi=3&_pos=1#match

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in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. John Esposito, ed., Oxford University Press, New York (2009: Volume. 2: 122 -129).

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9780195148039

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