Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education: Critical Perspectives on Teaching Islam in Primary and Secondary Schools Nadeem A. Memon, Mariam Alhashmi, and Mohamad Abdalla, Eds., Routledge, 2021, 278 pp.

Abstract

A number of edited volumes on Islamic education has been published in the last decade. These include volumes that survey education in the formative and classical periods of Islam (e.g., Günther, 2020); a global portrayal of the varieties of Islamic education that exist (e.g., Daun and Arjmand, 2018); and international perspectives on reform (e.g., Tan, 2014). Although Tan’s work dedicates a section to questions of reform and curriculum with a heavy emphasis on presenting primary data, the work under review here is the first of its kind that is dedicated to providing guidance for curriculum renewal in Muslim schools. Specifically, the editors focus on Muslim minority contexts in order to empower educators to conduct curriculum renewal themselves.