Islamic philosophy and
History of education
God will exalt those of you who believe
and those who have knowledge to high
degrees (58:11)
O my Lord! Increase me in
knowledge (20:114)
Quiz on Islamic education
A D
B E
C F
How Islamic education started
• The starting of Islamic education was Quran
Recitation
• The first word was “Iqra” that means “read”.
• Quran was considered the word of God and
needed to be organically interacted with by
means of reading and reciting its words.
• Thus, education in Islam derived its origins
from a symbiotic relationship with religious
instruction.
Contributions of the Muslim Civilization to the
Western countries
Algebra and
gometry
Ibn al-
Haytham
965 CE (354
AH)
GOLDEN AGE
10th to 13th century
• Western Europe was intellectually backward and
stagnant
• The Islamic world made most of its
contributions to the scientific and artistic world.
• The Arabic language has three terms for
education: Ta'līm (to know, to be aware, to
perceive, to learn), Tarbiyah (to increase, to
grow, to rear), and Ta'dīb (to be cultured,
refined, well-mannered)
GOLDEN AGE
10th to 13th century
• Western Europe was intellectually backward and
stagnant
• The Islamic world made most of its
contributions to the scientific and artistic world.
• The Arabic language has three terms for
education: Ta'līm (to know, to be aware, to
perceive, to learn), Tarbiyah (to increase, to
grow, to rear), and Ta'dīb (to be cultured,
refined, well-mannered)
Influence of Islam in education
• Cities having modern and scientific Islamic Schools like
Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo and Cordoba were the
centers of civilization and were flourishing .
• The first colleges appeared in the Muslim world in the
late 600’s and early 700’s. Where, Muslims were
taught Quran Recitation,
•
In Europe, some of the earliest colleges are those
under the University of Paris and Oxford they were
founded around the thirteenth century.
The role of
mosque
Worship School administration
Age of the Caliphs Expansion under the
Islamic Prophet Muhammad, 622–632
Expansion during the Rashidun Caliphate,
632–661
Expansion during the Umayyad Caliphate,
661–750
Muslim region in the world
Central Asia
(Turkey,
Latin America and Afghanistan)
Caribian (Guyana
and Suraname)
Saudi Iran Pakistan Indonesia Malaysia
Arabia
After the death of the Prophet (SAW)
632 AD
"Rightly-guided Caliphs"
Abu Bakr
632AD
Umar
Contributions
634 AD abolished murtads;
Freeing the countries
Uthman
644 invaded by Rome and
Persian
Ali Compilation of Quran
656-661
Ummayad
661-750 AD
Contributions
Center of ruling in Damascus
Islam spreads to Spain,
India, and central Asia
Knowledge of Nakli (religion)
and akli (maths and
geography) Dome of the Rock in
Jerusalem
Formal schools, kuttab (pre-
school), library
Baitulmal
UMAYYADS, the first Muslim dynasty (661-750)
Scholars during Ummayad
1. Imam Abu Hanifah(Nukman
Thabit) in 699 AD or 80 Hijrah
contributed to the Mazhab
Hanafi.
A Persian descendent born in
Kufah, Iraq
2. Imam Malik born in Madinah
in 93 Hijrah or 713 AD.
Abbasiyad
132H/750 AD – 650H/1258 AD
Contributions of Abbasyd
The dynasty takes its name
from its ancestor al-Abbas, the
uncle of the Prophet
Muhammad.
Central of administration in
Baghdad
The Abbasid "revolution" also
made Islam and the fruits of
power accessible to non-Arabs.
Imam Shafie born in 767 AD or
150 Hijrah in Ghazzah, Palestine
Imam Ahmad Hanbal born in Grave of Imam
780 AD or 164 Hijrah in Iraq Shafie in Egypt
Contributions
• The reigns of Harun al-Rashid (786 – 809) and
his successors fostered an age of great
intellectual achievement.
• Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizm a Persian
Introduced Algebra
• Ibn al-Haytham explored on optics.
• Ibnu Sina (Persian) contributed to medicine.
Significance of the history
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the Muslim history?