Muslim Scholars’ Views on Education

Brief Overview

This paper looks at the view of different Muslim scholars on education. It starts off by talking about the background of various scholars like Farabi, Avicenna, Tusi, Rumi, Sa’di etc. The second section looks at the Educational Ontology by outlining the goals, principles and methods of education.

The third section explains how knowledge should be acquired by talking about the educational epistemology.

This contains the scholars view on how learning should take place, how a child should be educated and what the curriculum content should be. The final section is about the educational axiology which talks about the relationship between religion and intellectual education.