Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary assessment of Islamic cases
Tragedy of 9/11 has far-reaching effect. It has changed systematically all aspects of the modern world history, especially the aspects pertaining to religions. Islam, in particular, has been the most badly affected and maligned among these religions as being projected widely the main agent behind...
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| description | Tragedy of 9/11 has far-reaching effect. It has changed systematically all aspects of the modern world
history, especially the aspects pertaining to religions. Islam, in particular, has been the most badly
affected and maligned among these religions as being projected widely the main agent behind the tragedy.
Then, all negative attributes and stigmas, such as violence, terrorism, hatred, intolerance, etc., are labeled
loosely and massively against Islam. Hence, the demand for reforming and restructuring the Islamic
educational curricular at all levels, as well as for scrutinizing the reading materials or books required for
the process of teaching-learning Islam, especially in madrasahs (traditional Islamic schools) in the
Muslim countries. Therefore, this paper is an academic attempt to assess the extent to which the tragedy
has affected the process of teaching-learning Islam, and to evaluate this impact in the context of both
philosophy of education, human rights, civil society and globalization. |
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| spelling | iium-227192012-03-21T01:29:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/22719/ Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary assessment of Islamic cases Thoha, Anis Malik BP1 Islam Tragedy of 9/11 has far-reaching effect. It has changed systematically all aspects of the modern world history, especially the aspects pertaining to religions. Islam, in particular, has been the most badly affected and maligned among these religions as being projected widely the main agent behind the tragedy. Then, all negative attributes and stigmas, such as violence, terrorism, hatred, intolerance, etc., are labeled loosely and massively against Islam. Hence, the demand for reforming and restructuring the Islamic educational curricular at all levels, as well as for scrutinizing the reading materials or books required for the process of teaching-learning Islam, especially in madrasahs (traditional Islamic schools) in the Muslim countries. Therefore, this paper is an academic attempt to assess the extent to which the tragedy has affected the process of teaching-learning Islam, and to evaluate this impact in the context of both philosophy of education, human rights, civil society and globalization. 2010 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/22719/1/260-266.pdf Thoha, Anis Malik (2010) Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary assessment of Islamic cases. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), 26 - 27 January 2010, Kuala Lumpur. |
| spellingShingle | BP1 Islam Thoha, Anis Malik Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary assessment of Islamic cases |
| title | Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of Islamic cases |
| title_full | Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of Islamic cases |
| title_fullStr | Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of Islamic cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of Islamic cases |
| title_short | Teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of Islamic cases |
| title_sort | teaching-learning religions after 9/11: a preliminary
assessment of islamic cases |
| topic | BP1 Islam |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/22719/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/22719/1/260-266.pdf |