An over-view of Western and Islamic Education

By Late Yusuf Abdul Lateef Sahib

The growing desire of educated individuals to grasp the true spirit of Islamic Education as it relates to the Quran is the reason for this study.

The first intention of the study is to enable the educator and other readers to understand the full meaning and aim of the Quran and to express the same feeling and effect that it produces in its original state of Arabic.

A second intent of this study is to focus some light upon the nature of Islamic scholarship, that is, both in the religious and in the intellectual sciences.

The scope of the study will include the nature of Western and Islamic Education, morality, ethics, obligations, civilization, culture, economics, natural and religious laws, social systems, the soul, Sufism, peace and Islamic tradition. Scholars may live in the East, West, North or South but they are still only branches of the same tree of knowledge, rooted in the earth of knowledge, created by God.

Also a document of this kind is needed simply because there are few, if any, of its kind available in English and it is needed because of its humanitarian and universal outlook on men and their affairs, irrespective of caste, color and creed.