Tag: Pedagogy
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The Embodied Pedagogy of Islamic Knowledge
Scholarship has increasingly examined historically grounded, textually cultivated traditional Muslim religious schools and their influence on the everyday life-worlds of the communities surrounding them. These institutions, as centres of religious education and spiritual practice, have played a central role across the Muslim world in shaping, informing, and reforming the daily engagements of believers. In doing…
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Utilizing Fairytales as Tarbiyyah: Hamra and the Jungle of Memories’ Approach
While most curricula revolving around tarbiyyah favor realities—the practice of prophets (may peace be upon them) and pious predecessors (may Allah have mercy on them)—there are growing opportunities to leverage fantasies. Fairytales and folklore already operate as tarbiyyah in a secular sense: to warn children of the consequences of negative characteristics and to reinforce the…