How Can Education Be Islamic? Al-Attas and Al-Farūqī’s Frame works in Contemporary Debate

The field of Islamic education has seen a major development in the last decades: theories, methods and curricula have been developed to create an educational framework that would be authentically Islamic. However, its developments seem to have remained interest of Muslim pedagogists and thinkers, and not of the wider academic community. In our essay we will briefly outline classical problems in Islamic education, introduce two of the most influential theoretical frameworks – elaborated by M.N. al-Attas and I. al-Farūqī – and discuss their contemporary effects. Both epistemological grounds and concrete applications will be presented.