Sunday, 22 May 2016

ISLAMIC EDUCATION INSTITUTION


INTRODUCTION
For a better understanding of Islamic financial in subject UHE3122 Islamic Institution, we are given a task to search about Islamic education institution. Madrasa (Arabic: مدرسةmadrasah,  مدارس,  madāris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious(of any religion).The word is variously transliterated madrasah, madarassa, medrasa, madrassa, madraza, medrese, etc. In the West, the word usually refers to a specific type of religious school or college for the study of the Islamic religion, though this may not be the only subject studied. Not all students in madaris are Muslims; there is also a modern curriculum
  


HISTORY
1.History of Islamic education.
From the very earliest days of Islam, the issue of education has been at the forefront at the minds of the Muslims. The very first word of the Quran that was revealed to Prophet Muhammad was, in fact, “Read”. Prophet Muhammad once stated that “Seeking knowledge is mandatory for all Muslims.” With such a direct command to go out and seek knowledge, Muslims have placed huge emphasis on the educational system in order to fulfill this obligation placed on them by the Prophet .
Throughout Islamic history, education was a point of pride and a field Muslims have always excelled in. Muslims built great libraries and learning centers in places such as Baghdad, Cordoba, and Cairo. They established the first primary schools for children and universities for continuing education. They advanced sciences by incredible leaps and bounds through such institutions, leading up to today’s modern world.
2.Attitudes toward education.
Today, education of children is not limited to the information and facts they are expected to learn. Rather, educators take into account the emotional, social, and physical well-being of the student in addition to the information they must master. Medieval Islamic education was no different. The 12th century Syrian physician al-Shayzari wrote extensively about the treatment of students. He noted that they should not be treated harshly, nor made to do busy work that doesn’t benefit them at all. The great Islamic scholar al-Ghazali also noted that “prevention of the child from playing games and constant insistence on learning deadens his heart, blunts his sharpness of wit and burdens his life. Thus, he looks for a ruse to escape his studies altogether.” Instead, he believed that educating students should be mixed with fun activities such as puppet theater, sports, and playing with toy animals.
3.The first school.
Ibn Khaldun states in his Muqaddimah, “It should be known that instructing children in the Qur’an is a symbol of Islam. Muslims have, and practice, such instruction in all their cities, because it imbues hearts with a firm belief (in Islam) and its articles of faith, which are (derived) from the verses of the Qur’an and certain Prophetic traditions.”
The very first educational institutions of the Islamic world were quite informal. Mosques were used as a meeting place where people can gather around a learned scholar, attend his lectures, read books with him/her, and gain knowledge. Some of the greatest scholars of Islam learned in such a way, and taught their students this way as well. All four founders of the Muslim schools of law – Imams Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi’i, and Ibn Hanbal – gained their immense knowledge by sitting in gatherings with other scholars (usually in the mosques) to discuss and learn Islamic law.

4.Modern history.
The tradition of madrasas and other classical forms of Islamic education continues until today, although in a much more diminshed form. The defining factor for this was the encroachment of European powers on Muslim lands throughout the 1800s. In the Ottoman Empire, for example, French secularist advisors to the sultans advocated a complete reform of the educational system to remove religion from the curriculum and only teach secular sciences. Public schools thus began to teach a European curriculum based on European books in place of the traditional fields of knowledge that had been taught for hundreds of years. Although Islamic madrasas continued to exist, without government support they lost much of their relevance in the modern Muslim world.
Today, much of the former Ottoman Empire still runs education along European lines. For example, what you are allowed to major in at the university level depends on how you do on a certain standardized test at the end of your high school career. If you obtain the highest possible grades on the test, you can study sciences such as medicine or engineering. If one scores on the lower end of the spectrum, they are only allowed to study topics such as Islamic sciences and education.
Despite the new systems in place in much of the Muslim world, traditional education still survives. Universities such as al-Azhar, al-Karaouine, and Darul Uloom in Deoband, India continue to offer traditional curricula that bring together Islamic and secular sciences. Such an intellectual tradition rooted in the great institutions of the past that produced some of the greatest scholars of Islamic history and continues to spread the message and knowledge of Islam to the masses.



Vision and mission

The role of the Islamic education is to man­age and develop Mus­lim pupils’ edu­ca­tion through ded­i­ca­tion and excel­lence through uphold­ing Islamic val­ues.  Its prin­ci­pal aims are to advise and empower the edu­ca­tors and par­ents within the com­mu­nity thus pro­vid­ing a stim­u­lat­ing learn­ing envi­ron­ment cul­ti­vated within an Islamic ethos where stu­dents will flour­ish and develop, ulti­mately allow­ing them to achieve their fullest poten­tial and become suc­cess­ful role mod­els worth emu­lat­ing enabling them to con­tribute and par­tic­i­pate effec­tively within Irish society.
Objectives
1.       To makes a fundamental distinction between teaching about "Islam" and teaching about "being Muslim." 
2.       To get focus on teaching values and emphasize issues of identity and self-esteem; furthermore, it must address the real concerns of students, and it must emphasize and provide for training in leadership. 
3.        To gain the active involvement of parents.
4.       To discover the larger connections between the knowledge and skills they are learning—rather than memorizing isolated bits of information.
5.       Realize that every aspect of the teaching-learning experience conveys values to students and provides opportunities for them to learn about values. 



Aims of Islamic education
In Islamic education also have aims in their organization. Spread of learning- the main aims was spread of religion among muslims because they thought that knowledge is the only ways of salvation. The second aims for Islamic education are they thought that knowledge can help the person to distinguish between right and wrong.Spread of Islam-muslims thought spread of religion as their pious duty. Islamic education also can spread of muslim culture.Formation of character  to better person.




Concept of Islamic education
A continuous process of developing human potentials to foster a better human in order to bring the success for  man for his life and life in here after. Tarbiyah:Combination of ta’lim and ta’dib. Tarbiyah in Islam is very important, for indeed all of the Deen is based upon tarbiyah (i.e. the education and upbringing of the people). This starts first of all with the education and training of our own selves, then of our families, and then of the community at large. But this tarbiyah is most important with respect to our children, so that they are brought up upon the correct path of Islam. Because of this, many of the scholars take care in discussing this aspect of tarbiyah more so than the others.Ta’lim: Teach knowledge and skills. ) Instruction in Quran and hadith and sometimes Islamic law, typically provided in the mosque. Students form a circle around the instructor of their choice. Upon completion of study, the student is awarded a certificate, or ijazah, certifying the successful study of certain texts with a particular teacher, enabling the student to teach these same texts. Remains an important part of education in the Islamic world. Sometimes added as a supplement to the required curriculum. Muslims living in non-Muslim-majority countries often desire to continue this type of education for their children and are working to establish local institutions to offer instruction.  While Ta’dib is the implement learned knowledge and skills. Tazkiyah is Learn to improve and avoid from doing similar mistake. This refers to the process of transforming the nafs (carnal self or desires) from its deplorable state of ego-centrality through various spiritual stages towards the level of purity and submission to the will of Allah.[1] Its basis is in learning the shari'ah and deeds from the known authentic sunnah ('ilm) and applying it in your own deeds through life resulting in spiritual awareness of Allah (being constantly aware that He is with us by His knowledge and knows all that we do, along with being in constant remembrance or Dhikr of Him in your thoughts and actions) being the highest level of Ihsan. Other concept  in Islamic education is Tabsyir. Tabsyir means to  give reward or also advise to the people especially to muslim. Lastly the concept of Islamic education is Tanzir. Tanzir means to give punish or warning.





The principle of education
1.Relationship with Allah
2.Focus on spiritual
3.Holistic
4.From knowledge to practices
5.Complete/comprehensive in every part of human needs
6. Phases of education
7. To empty / to refill (Mengosong dan mengisi)
8. Must have good environment
9.  Exemplary educator
10.Understand the student
11.Clear objectives
12.Applicable knowledge
13.For everyone
14.Lifelong




Source of education
The main source is al quran and as sunnah.In reference to one of the primary sources of education for Muslims (commonly referred to as Islamic education), the Qurān (divine revealed knowledge of Allāh), it can be inferred that Islamic education is articulated in relation to an integrated understanding of knowledge (‘ilm) – that is revealed knowledge – through the direct word of Allāh as represented through the Qurān. Further, knowledge constructed by the human mind, such as knowledge produced through the practices of people, often under the guidance of prophetic experiences – for instance, the practices of the Prophet Muhammad (considered as the last prophet of Allāh), better known as his Sunnah (life experiences), as collected in the various books ofHadīth (literally a saying of the Prophet). So, for Muslims, the Qurān is considered as the revealed knowledge of Allāh to humankind, and the Ahādīth (plural of Hadīth) are considered as expositions of the revealed knowledge of Allāh.

Scope of Islamic education
Macro-  talks about God, nature and human. Such as the essence of God’s characteristic and human being
Micro-talks about everything has relation to the education or Islamic education itself.

1.God- As we know that each religion has different God.

1.The systems of philosophical thinking

2.God in Islam- God in Islam is Allah SWT

2.Scientific phenomenology

3.Existency of God

3.Curriculum based on Islamic education

4.Process of creating the human in the Qor’an

4.Historical phenomenology





Conclusion
In a society where religion and knowledge in general and science in particular do not go hand in hand, it seems necessary to briefly describe the position of Islam knowledge, Islam, in theory as well as in practice, has always promoted knowledge. Distinctive mark of human beings over the an­gels is knowledge.
“Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.” (Al-Tirmidhi).
Allah has raised the ranks and status of those who have knowledge, and has praised them in many places in the Quran.  Allah says:
“Allah raises of those who believe and those who have been given knowledge many levels.” (Quran 58:11) .
There is a great difference between a Muslim who has knowledge and one who does not. 

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