Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change (2 vols)

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Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change offers fascinating new insights into key issues of learning and human development in classical Islam, including their shared characteristics, influence, and interdependence with historical, non-Muslim educational cultures. ‎Contents ‎Foreword ‎Acknowledgments ‎Notes on Transliteration and Style ‎Illustrations ‎Abbreviations ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Islamic Education, Its Culture, Content and Methods: An Introduction (Günther) ‎Part 1. Setting the Stage ‎Chapter 1. The Humanities through Islamic Eyes: The Beginnings (Kadi) ‎Part 2. Prophetic Mission, Learning, and the Rise of Islam ‎Chapter 2. “Arcane Knowledge” Communicated in the Quran (Neuwirth) ‎Chapter 3. Muhammad as Educator, Islam as Enlightenment, and the Quran as Sacred Epic (Lawson) ‎Chapter 4. Divine Inspiration, Storytelling, and Cultural Transfer: Muhammad’s and Caedmon’s Call (Schoeler) ‎Chapter 5. The Exercise of Theological Knowledge in the Church of the East, Provoked by Coexistence with the Muslims (Seventh Century CE) (Tamcke) ‎‮‭Chapter 6‬. الموالي والتربية والتعليم في صدر الإسلام‬‎ ‎Part 3. Rational vs. Spiritual Approaches to Education ‎Chapter 7. How Do We Learn? Al-Fārābī’s Epistemology of Teaching (Germann) ‎Chapter 8. Al-Fārābī and His Concept of Epistemological Hierarchy (Malinova) ‎Chapter 9. Educational Discourse in Classical Islam: A Case Study of Miskawayh’s (d. 421/1030) Tahdhīb al-akhlāq (El Jamouhi) ‎Chapter 10. Teaching Ignorance: The Case of al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) (Heck) ‎Chapter 11. Al-Rafīq qabla l-ṭarīq: Remarks on al-Ghazālī’s View of Sufism as a Way of Learning Religion (Stelzer) ‎Chapter 12. “Only Learning That Distances You from Sins Today Saves You from Hellfire Tomorrow”: Boundaries and Horizons of Education in al-Ghazālī and Ibn Rushd (Günther) ‎Chapter 13. A Sufi as Pedagogue: Some Educational Implications of Rūmī’s Poetry (Dehghani Farsani) ‎Part 4. Learning through History ‎Chapter 14. Ibn Isḥāq’s and al-Ṭabarī’s Historical Contexts for the Quran: Implications for Contemporary Research (Mårtensson) ‎Chapter 15. Scholars, Figures, and Groups in al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām (Scheiner) ‎Part 5. Literature as Method and Medium of Instruction ‎Chapter 16. Education through Narrative in Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Almutawa) ‎Chapter 17. Storytelling as Philosophical Pedagogy: The Case of Suhrawardī (Rustom) ‎Chapter 18. The Masters’ Repertoire (Mashyakha) and the Quest for Knowledge (Hilali and Sublet) ‎Chapter 19. The Use of Verse as a Pedagogical Medium, Principally in the Teaching of Grammar (Carter) ‎Chapter 20. Islamic Education Reflected in the Forms of Medieval Scholarly Literature: Jamʿ, Tāʾlīf, and Taṣnīf in Classical Islam (Khismatulin) ‎Chapter 21. Primary Schoolteachers between Jidd and Hazl: Literary Treatment of Educational Practices in Pre-modern Islamic Schools (Ghersetti) ‎Chapter 22. The Metaphor of the Divine Banquet and the Origin of the Notion of Adab (Patrizi) ‎Chapter 23. Wisdom and the Pedagogy of Parables in Abraham Ibn Ḥasday’s The Prince and the Ascetic (Andruss) ‎Part 6. Travel, the Exact Sciences, and Islamic Learning ‎Chapter 24. War and Travel, Patrons and the Mail: The Education of Abū l-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. 440/1048) (Stowasser) ‎Chapter 25. Variants of Galenism: Ibn Hindū and Ibn Riḍwān on the Study of Medicine (Richter-Bernburg) ‎Chapter 26. Teaching Mathematical and Astronomical Knowledge in Classical and Post-Classical Islamicate Societies (Brentjes) ‎Part 7. Politics of Knowledge and Muslim Identity ‎Chapter 27. The Development of a Sufi Anti-curriculum: Politics of Knowledge and Authority in Classical Islamic Education (Abdel-Latif) ‎Chapter 28. Knowledge in the Buyid Period: Practices and Formation of Social Identity (Alshaar) ‎Chapter 29. A Ruler’s Curriculum: Transcultural Comparisons of Mirrors for Princes (Boccaccini) ‎Chapter 30. Interpretive Power and Conflicts of Interpretive Power: Caliphate, Religion, and “True” Islamic Education at the Dawn of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century in Baghdad (Hartmann) ‎Chapter 31. The ʿĀlim-Caliph: Reimagining the Caliph as a Man of Learning in Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Egypt (Banister) ‎Part 8. Principles and Practices in Ibadi and Shiʿi Learning ‎Chapter 32. Teaching Ethics in Early Ibadism: A Preliminary Study (Newiger) ‎Chapter 33. Scholars of Ḥilla and the Early Imami Legal Tradition: Ibn Abī ʿAqīl and Ibn al-Junayd, “The Two Ancient Scholars,” Retrieved (Rizek) ‎Chapter 34. Shiʿi Higher Learning in the Pre-Safavid Period: Scholars, Educational Ideals, Practices, and Curricula (Moazzen) ‎Part 9. Gender, Human Growth, and Authority in Muslim Education ‎Chapter 35. Denial of Similitude: The Exegetical Concern with Gender in “And the Male Is Not Like the Female” (Q 3:36) (Abboud) ‎Chapter 36. “If Music Be the Food of Love?” The Singing-Girls and the Notion of Ṭarab as Part of an Adab-Ideal (Imhof) ‎Chapter 37. Women Scholars of Ḥadīth: A Case Study of the Eighth/Fourteenth-Century Muʿjam al-Shaykha Maryam (Haredy) ‎Chapter 38. Knowledge, Piety, and Religious Leadership in the Late Middle Ages: Reinstating Women in the Master Narrative (Afsaruddin) ‎Part 10. Transformations of Classical Muslim Learning ‎Chapter 39. The Development of Arabo-Islamic Education among Members of the Mamluk Military (Mauder) ‎Chapter 40. Dissociation of Theology from Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Period (Kalaycı) ‎Chapter 41. The Malaysian Scholar Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (b. 1931) on Islamic Education: An Evaluation in View of Classical Islamic Sources (Daiber) ‎General Notes on the Indices ‎Index of Proper Names ‎Index of Geographical Names and Toponyms ‎Index of Book Titles and Other Texts ‎Index of Scriptural References ‎Ḥadīth Index ‎Index of Topics and Keywords