Why Theology Shapes the Maktab Walking into two different maktabs in India — one in Lucknow and one in Kozhikode…
Introduction Australia is home to one of the world’s most dynamic and rapidly growing Muslim communities. With 813,392 Muslims recorded…
Introduction South Africa’s Muslim community — approximately 1.5 to 1.9 million people, concentrated in the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, and…
Introduction Walk through Cairo’s medieval quarter of Khan el-Khalili, along the winding lanes of Fez’s medina, through the ancient cities…
Introduction The Deobandi maktab tradition is the dominant model of part-time Islamic education across Australia and New Zealand. Tracing its…
Introduction The Tasheel Series is the dominant Islamic studies curriculum in New Zealand’s mosque maktabs — used at Madrasah Uthmaaniyah…
Introduction In Mombasa’s Old Town, in the shadow of Fort Jesus, there are families whose children have memorised the Qur’an…
Introduction Understanding how Indian madrasas are funded and governed is essential for understanding their constraints, their vulnerabilities, and their remarkable…
What Is a Maktab Board? A maktab board is an organisation that provides a standardised Islamic curriculum, textbooks, teacher training,…
Introduction Every mosque madrasah in New Zealand operates within a legal and governance framework — whether its trustees and imams…
Introduction Every madrasa administrator in East Africa knows the feeling. It is 8pm on a Wednesday. You are sitting down…
Introduction In the mountains of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, in the Saharan oasis towns of southern Algeria, in the river communities…
Introduction New Zealand reached a watershed moment in Islamic education in 2020: a full-time, residential girls’ Darul Uloom opened its…
Introduction The Madrasa ya Qur’an teaches children to read and recite the Qur’an. The Madrasa ya Dini gives them the…
Introduction Women’s Islamic education in India has undergone a significant and largely unacknowledged transformation over the past four decades. The…
Introduction The single most acute tension in Indian Muslim educational choice is between two legitimate and deeply felt imperatives: Islamic…
Introduction New Zealand’s Islamic education sector is concentrated in Auckland but extends — often surprisingly — into regions far beyond…
Introduction Tanzania is home to one of East Africa’s largest and most historically rooted Islamic educational networks. From the ancient…
Introduction Between the traditional Kuttab — where a child learns to recite the Qur’an — and the Darul Uloom or…
Introduction In the turbulent religious landscape of colonial India, few scholars combined scholarly depth, polemical courage, and political commitment as…
Introduction The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) is the only national organisation representing Muslim imams, Shaykhaat, and Islamic scholars in…
Introduction New Zealand’s Islamic schools and mosque madrasahs are, in 2026, at a pivotal point in their administrative development. The…
Introduction Kenya’s Islamic educational network is one of the largest and most established in sub-Saharan Africa. Concentrated along the Swahili…
Introduction Before a child in India can memorise the Quran, before they can study Hadith or Fiqh, before they can…
Introduction In the landscape of South Asian Islamic seminaries, two institutions have defined the tradition and its tensions for over…
Introduction Running a mosque madrasah in New Zealand in 2026 means navigating a unique combination of responsibilities: maintaining the Islamic…
Introduction Walk through Mombasa’s Old Town, Nairobi’s Eastleigh, Dar es Salaam’s Kariakoo, or any community with a significant Muslim population…
Introduction In the Kuttab attached to a mosque in Cairo’s Heliopolis neighbourhood, a shaykh manages 28 students — each on…
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic forced Australia’s and New Zealand’s Islamic education sector online in 2020. Unlike many sectors that returned…
Introduction Understanding Islamic education in New Zealand requires understanding the bodies that give it direction, the scholars who staff it,…
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