Articles on Islamic curriculum, classical education methodology, isnād-based transmission, and Muslim school administration.
Modern Islamic education produces students who know about Islam. Classical education produces students who can think within Islam. The difference is not small.
Read Article →The question most administrators ask is: does this teacher have a degree? The question they should ask is: from whom did this teacher learn?
Read Article →Accreditation bodies measure processes, facilities, and outcomes. They do not measure whether the ʿaqh being transmitted is sound.
Read Article →The isnād is the chain of transmission that connects every piece of authenticated Islamic knowledge to its original source.
Read Article →Every year, Muslim school directors and mosque education coordinators face the same question: Is what we are teaching our students actually working?
Read Article →Two Arabic words used frequently in discussions of Islamic education — yet they describe genuinely different visions of what education is for.
Read Article →Manṭiq — Islamic logic — was not considered optional by the scholars who built the classical curriculum. It was the key that unlocked everything else.
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