Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Muslim Scholars' Views on Education

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Brief Overview
• Introduction
• A Brief Biography of Some Muslim Scholars
• Al-Farabi
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
• Al-Ghazali
• Al-Tusi
• Al-Rumi
• Al-Sadi
• Hafez
• Ibn Khaldun
• Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai
• Mortaza Mutahhari
• Educational Ontology
• Goals of Education
• 1. Detachment
• 2. Cultivation of spirit
• 3. Health of Body
• 4. Social Adjustment
• Ultimate Aims
• Annihilation in God and abiding in Him
• Voluntary death
• Intuition or knowledge by heart
• Immediate receiving of God’s bounty or emanation
• Intermediary goals
• Cultivation and guidance of intellect and thought
• Solving the existential problems
• 1. Ultimate goals
• Ultimate goals
• Scientific Dispositions
• Industrial Dispositions
• These are practical- intellectual skills, like sewing and carpentry
• Spiritual habits or dispositions
• Principles and methods of Education
• Methods of Student Education
• Self-training Methods
• Educational Epistemology
• Learning
• Educating a Child
• Curriculum and Educational Contents
• Educational Axiology
• Religious and Intellectual Education
• “In the school of truth, before the love belletrist
• Factors of Education
• References