Open AccessMaqasid Methodology for Re-Envisioning Islamic Higher Education
Author(s) -
Jasser Auda
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of contemporary maqasid studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2831-5049
DOI - 10.52100/jcms.v1i1.58
Subject(s) - islam , restructuring , curriculum , islamic education , higher education , engineering ethics , sociology , process (computing) , epistemology , political science , pedagogy , engineering , computer science , philosophy , law , theology , operating system
This article aims to demonstrate how the Maqasid Methodology re-envisions and re-structures an Islamic approach to higher education. This restructuring has direct implications on the research agendas, course curricula and mission of the higher education process. Achieving the purposes or maqasid of Islam via research and education, however, requires a contemporary re-classification of disciplines. Both Islamic and secular classifications, classical and contemporary, are not compatible with the needs of our times. After a general survey of classic and current classifications of disciplines, a new classification is proposed, from an Islamic point of view. The new classification and the associated research agendas briefly presented are basis for a new design for the higher education system based on the Islamic maqasid-based framework.