The world was introduced to the first academic establishment granting degrees when Fatima al-Fihriya, a female Muslim scholar, established Jamia al-Qarawiyyin, in the ancient city of Fes in 859 CE. After spreading throughout the Arab Muslim world, it took hundreds of years for this new establishment to make its way into Europe with the university…

Among Muslims, the states of spiritual well-being and physical health complement each other and should be developed in youth. Regular physical activity (PA) in childhood is associated with multiple health benefits immediately and persisting into adulthood. Schools are ideal venues for children to be physically active owing to curricular (i.e.,…

This article explores the relation between future-readiness and Islamic education from the perspectives of Islamic learning centers in Singapore. The main research objective is to examine how the concept of future-readiness and related terms are interpreted, framed, and facilitated in Islamic textbooks. Based on a content analysis of the textbooks…

This qualitative study examines the experiences of five Muslim women scholars in academia, focusing on the intersection of race, religion, and gender in predominantly secular institutions. Through Critical Race Methodology (CRM), and Muslim Critical Race Theory (MusCrit), we analyze how Muslim women navigate exclusionary academic spaces,…

In Ghana, religious organizations have a long history of both direct and collaborative approaches to education provision, ranging from school administration to consulting services, training educators, scholarships, and capital projects. As such, there are a variety of religious-based NGOs in Ghana working in education. First, this article explores…

This article posits a conceptual framework for understanding how what I call "state philanthropy" in education is used to build democracy. Using the example of Tunisia, the article looks at how states manage grantees, choose partners, frame problems, and evaluate philanthropic endeavors in education. In drawing from the International…

The purpose of this study is to explore the scholarly literature on how philanthropy intersects Islamic education. Specifically, we uncover motivations for supporting voluntary Islamic education. We also find wide gaps in the current amalgamation of disjointed literature.

Muslim education is constituted by a notion of "tarbiyyah"--that is, being socialized into an inherited body of facts with little, if any, opportunity for critical appraisal of such tenets of faith. Such a notion of Muslim education is still dominant in South African Muslim educational institutions--mostly schools and…

In this article, a brief overview of the demography and status of Muslims in the United States is presented, followed by a more detailed discussion of the nature and growth of Islamophobia in American society. The implications of both the changing demography and the increase in Islamophobia in recent years with respect to how they have impacted…

The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative on the historical development of Muslim education with the objective of examining challenges and opportunities to support the strengthening of Muslim education agenda through policy dialogue and stakeholders' engagements. The paper utilizes methods of inquiry such as literature review,…

The study expands our understanding of the educational role of Islamic schools in the United States. It investigated the types of challenges facing Islamic schools in America and the resulting policies that schools adopt in response to these challenges. To that end, the study interviewed the principals of two Islamic schools located in Illinois to…

While there are innumerable studies about global international organizations (IOs) in education, the role of regional organizations seems overshadowed by more powerful actors in the field, the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).…

South Africa's transition to democracy signaled many new beginnings to different people and communities. For the Muslim community, democracy beckoned toward an untraversed path of identity and expression--one unshielded by the seclusion unintentionally provided through apartheid. The changes, while not immediately obvious, were nevertheless…

Scholars are increasingly concerned about the global learning crisis, which is often measured by the number of In-School Children (ISC) as against the Out-of-School Children (OOSC). However, both contribute to the crisis. Consequently, school-aged children in the Almajiri system are characterized as OOSC. Interestingly, Nigeria has the largest…

This article argues that third space education reform can be a bridge to Muslim traditions of philanthropy and empathy (one form of which is compassion). By connecting education reform efforts to Muslim tradition, reformers will have greater success due to buy-in from local Muslim populations. By examining primary sources of Islam and using social…