Teaching and learning Islam in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM): some aspects of relevantization of Islamic sciences
This article focuses on the experiment of teaching and learning Islam in the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Although it devoted a considerable space for the Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (KIRKHS), yet the experiences of other Kulliyyahs were not co...
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| Language: | English |
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Revelation and Science, IIUM
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/42556/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42556/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42556/1/Teacing_n_Learning_Islam.pdf |
| Summary: | This article focuses on the experiment of teaching and learning Islam in the International Islamic University
Malaysia (IIUM). Although it devoted a considerable space for the Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge
and Human Sciences (KIRKHS), yet the experiences of other Kulliyyahs were not completely ignored. It
argued that the new ijtihad in teaching and learning Islam, which has been developed in KIRKHS has its
impact on other Kulliyyahs. In this regard, the most significant feature has to do with both the definition of the
religious phenomenon and the unit of analysis within which it has been evaluated. Obviously this methodic
approach has a remarkable effect on the discipline of History of Religions. Because of this new orientation in
the study of this discipline, one can say that IIUM’s experiment in teaching and learning religion in general
and Islam in particular is refreshingly different. More to the point, it changed significantly the way in which
religious phenomenon has been approached in a university set-up |
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