The Curriculum in an Islamic University

Abstract

An Islamic university is a place from where students get Islamic society’s intellectual heritage. Therefore, the Islamic university should have a well-designed curriculum by which students can gain different aspects of Islamic knowledge. In Islamic tradition, seeking knowledge is an integral part of human life. Islam has emphasized on two sorts of knowledge – reveal knowledge which comes directly from Allah (SWT) and earthly knowledge which is discovered by human beings. In this present era higher educational curriculum is designed by the objectives of utilitarianism and pragmatism neglecting the Islamic views. The writers of this analytical study would like to promote a better and brief comprehensive understanding of curriculum in an Islamic university. In this stage for addressing the research questions the definition of Islamic university has been discussed. Secondly, what’s the wrong of a conventional university curriculum bears has been be shown. Furthermore, how conventional university’s curriculum is different from the Islamic university’s curriculum has been analyzed briefly. Then the writers has discussed all the arguments to suggest about the category of curriculum that should be established in an Islamic university.