Introduction Islamic education in Turkey operates through one of the most distinctive and institutionalised systems in the Muslim world. With…
Introduction The UK has a well-established Islamic supplementary school sector — and a software market to match. Unlike most parts…
Introduction Safeguarding is not a box to tick for UK compliance purposes. It is the most serious responsibility that any…
Introduction A mosque committee decides to formalise the maktab it has been running informally for five years. A group of…
Introduction Most UK maktab administrators are aware that GDPR exists. Far fewer have thought carefully about what it actually requires…
Introduction There are estimated to be between 2,000 and 2,500 supplementary Islamic schools — maktabs and weekend Quran schools —…
Introduction If you were to count the number of Hadith that Islamic jurisprudence depends on that were transmitted by women,…
Introduction Fourteen centuries before compulsory state education arrived in England, France, or America, and centuries before any European power organised…
Introduction There is a gap in how Islamic education is typically discussed — a gap between the maktab teacher correcting…
Introduction Every Ramadan, something happens in Islamic schools that defies easy explanation. Students who have been progressing at a comfortable…
Introduction On a morning in May 1866, a group of scholars gathered in the town of Deoband in what is…
Introduction There is a moment that every sincere Islamic school teacher encounters — a moment when the technical work of…
introduction In 1377 CE, a North African scholar named Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun sat down to write what he intended…
Introduction The maktab is older than the mosque. Before Muslim communities built domes and minarets, before the great libraries of…
Introduction Almost every maktab in the world is currently being run, at least partly, through WhatsApp. The class group. The…
Introduction The single most consequential decision any maktab makes is who it puts in front of its students. A curriculum…
Introduction It happens in almost every maktab sooner or later. An Ustadh who has been with the school for two…
Introduction A handwritten Hifz register captures one thing well: where a student is today. It captures almost nothing else. It…
Introduction Ask ten Quran teachers when they introduce Tajweed rules to children and you will get ten different answers. Some…
Introduction Ramadan is both the most spiritually significant month for a maktab and the most operationally complex. Students and teachers…
Introduction A parent drops off their child at maktab every evening. Three months pass. They have received one brief message…
Introduction Every maktab administrator has experienced the moment. A parent asks: “How is my son doing with his Hifz?” And…
Introduction Every Hifz school reaches a point in the year where it must answer a question it has been quietly…
Introduction Every Hifz teacher has experienced it. A student who was progressing steadily starts arriving late. Then missing sessions. Then…
Introduction The maktab timetable looks deceptively simple — an hour and a half, three or four subjects, a handful of…
Introduction Every functioning maktab started with a decision by a small group of people — usually a mosque committee, a…
Introduction There is a chain of transmission running through every madrasah in South Asia, through Darul Uloom Deoband and its…
Introduction Before there were classrooms, curricula, or attendance registers, there was the circle. The Prophet ﷺ sat with his Companions…
Introduction The Quran has been memorised, recited, transmitted, and taught by women in an unbroken chain from the time of…
Introduction Ask a maktab principal what their school teaches, and they will tell you: Quran recitation, Tajweed, basic Fiqh, duas,…
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