A Critical Review of Approaches to Islamizing Knowledge in a Muslim Minority Country

Abstract

Ever since the contemporary Islamization of knowledge programme became operational, many world conferences on Islamic education have been organized, the seventh of which was concluded in Malaysia in December 2009. These are complimented with a series of international and regional conferences on Islamization of human knowledge. The programme has recorded significant progress in education reform in many Muslim countries. It however assumes different approaches in some Muslim minority countries. This paper takes a critical look at some of these approaches with particular references to Nigeria. It observes that most of the approaches are not actually speaking the mind of the Islamization programme, but with serious intensification of efforts it will reach a state of perfection if the tempo is sustained