A journey of faith and knowledge
Islamic education system did not collapse; it imploded in the 17th century, leading to a catastrophic shift in knowledge production that ultimately led to the collapse of the three apparently powerful empires, which controlled the traditional lands of Islam: the Ottomans (ca. 1299–1922), the Mughals (1526–1857) and the Safavids (1501–1736). At the beginning of the seventeenth century, these three Muslim empires held more global wealth than all the other empires collectively. As that transforming century traversed its course, Europe woke up from its slumber of centuries to a resounding blast that would untie its remaining connections with the vestiges of the earlier era when Christianity still had a role to play. This revolt would, within a century, result in the pronouncement of “death of God.”
A direct consequence of this simultaneous awakening and revolt against God was accumulation of power through discoveries and inventions that would allow European powers to colonize a vast region of the world, including almost the entire Muslim World.
What happened next was devastating: Muslim education system, which had started to implode at the beginning of the 17th century, collapsed and a new education system was implanted with a clear goal, as Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) declared in his Minute on Education:“We must at present do our best to form a class of per- sons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.”
Muslim Education Foundation (MEF) and the Center for Islamic Sciences (CIS) have joined hands to reverse the course of Muslim education by rooting it in the Qur’anic Worldview.
We welcome teachers from around the world to participate in this transformational experience. Join us on this journey of faith and learning which is poised to transform the way you teach core subjects. Leading experts in the fields of Islamic Pedagogy, Science, Language, Literature and Arts, Mathematics, History and social studies will teach specially designed online courses to provide foundational orientation in these subjects.
We begin with the conviction that all sciences—natural, human, linguistic, mathematical—
must be rooted in a worldview that sees the cosmos as āyāt, and the pursuit of knowledge as a form of worship.
Muslim education system imploded in the 17th century; it has yet to recover
Join the journey of faith and learning to re-establish the Qur’anic paradigms in Muslim schooling
Linking Muslim schools globally—one at a time
4–5-week online courses, live transmissions, pre-recorded, downloadable
Sample course titles:
Islamic Pedagogy Beyond Theory
Teach science from the Qur’anic Perspective
Literature: Rumi for Teachers
Teaching Poetry from the Qur’anic Perspective
Persuasive Writing—Qur’anic and Aristotelian models
Writing a Travelogue—what can we learn from Ibn Jubayr?
Learning other Civilizations with al-Biruni