Integration of Knowledge: The Continuing Challenges

Abstract

While concern with the issue of educational “dualism” and the need to Islamize contemporary human knowledge and integrate it with revealed truth was the preserve of western-educated Muslim intelligentsia in the 70’s, it has become the concern of educators and other stakeholders of educational systems throughout the world. The growing numbers of Muslims in non-Muslim majority societies have raised concerns about the treatment of matters of the Islamic faith in public school systems (Triki-Yamani & McAndrew, 2008). The political events in the world since the September 11 tragedy have made focus on integration even more urgent (Malkawi, 2012). While the efforts of the pioneers of Islamization of knowledge were focused on higher education, more and more researchers are paying education to the primary and secondary levels.