[ms] Education Reform of al-Hadi and al-Faruqi

Abstract

The progress of civilization depends on its mastery in the field of education. The development of Islamic civilization during the time of ‘Abbasid proved their dominance in the field of science and education. After the fall of Islamic civilization until the end of the colonial period, Muslims were backward and lagging behind in all fields, including education. But there was an attempt to regain the glory of Islamic civilization known as the reformation movement. This movement began in the era of British colonial which ruled over Egypt until the end of the days of colonialism and is still continuing to this day. But the reformation efforts and propagations are still far from reality. This study looks at the reformation specific to education by comparing the educational reforms in period of colonialism and post-colonialism. Therefore, the researcher selected al-Hadi to represent the colonialism era and al-Faruqi as the figure from post-colonialism. Both these figures promoted ideas in educational reforms and also then through the establishment of educational institutions. This paper compares the educational reforms al-Hadi and al-Faruqi in four aspects, i.e., the weakness of Islamic education, the acceptance of Western education, the integration of education and the establishment of educational institutions. This paper is a qualitative study using the method of literature review. The results showed that from colonial times until the present day, there are still weaknesses and deficiencies in the system of Islamic education. Thus, al-Faruqi education reform not only improves the weakness of al-Hadi education reformation, but also complemented the shortcomings of the reformation.

Keywords: Reform; education; al-Hadi; al-Faruqi; education reform

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/islamiyyat-2015-3701-04