Islamic Education: A Science

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The article has made an attempt to study the quality of Islamic education; however, it is still open to this question: "Can Islamic education be a science?" Discussing different meanings of education, the following article also examines the aspects where it can be referred to as Islamic education science and it accounts for the major obstacles on the way of each approach. It specifically challenges the inferential approach and maintains that this science, being experimental or narrative, comes across variant religious interpretations, judgments and justifications, lack of a sound methodology, lack of transparency in concepts and hermeneutic issues. The article eventually recommends Islamic education as a process rather than a science where it has a lot to say.

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