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 persons, 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.