1st Edition

Islamic-Based Educational Leadership, Administration and Management Challenging Expectations through Global Critical Insights

302 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Offering a vital, critical contribution to discussions on current perspectives, practices and assumptions on Islamic education, this book explores the topic through a wide range of diverse perspectives and experiences. This volume challenges current assumptions around what is known as Islamic education and examines issues around educational leadership based on Islamic principles to confront... Read more

Introduction

Khalid Arar, Rania Sawalhi, Amaarah DeCuir and Tasneem Amatullah

Part I: Between past and future: New insights

Chapter 1 A call to re-explore Islamic-based educational leadership through new lenses

Khalid Arar and Rania Sawalhi

    Chapter 2 The Islamic "Khilafah" model to educational leadership: From the Prolegomena to Desiderata

    Ared Al-Attari and Eman Bani Essa

    Chapter 3 Managing emotions in schools: Insights from religion sources and a model for school leadership

    Mustafa Toprak and Mehmet Karakus

    Chapter 4 Be the light: Islamic-based teacher leadership

    Rania Sawalhi

Part II: Islamic-based educational leadership in secular countries

    Chapter 5 Islamic antiracist school leadership

    Amaarah DeCuir

    Chapter 6 Islamic-based educational leadership in UK higher education: Balancing securitization, marketization and Islamic values

    Fella Lahmar

    Chapter 7 Educational Leadership in a Muslim and Secular Country: The Case of Türkiye

    Ibrahim Hakan Karataş

    Chapter 8 Schooling system and administration practices of religious education: The case of Imam-Hatip schools of Türkiye

    Emre ER, Fatih Şahin and İsmail Doğru

    Chapter 9 Islamic educational leadership: Southeast Asia perspectives

    Bambang Sumintono, Erika Setyanti Kusumaputri, Hasan Hariri and Yudi Juniardi

Part III: Models, voices, and new insights from Muslim communities

    Chapter 10 UAE school reforms and leadership: What can be learned from Muslim scholars’ perspectives and contemporary insights?

    Rida Blaik, David Litz and Nagla Ali

    Chapter 11 Islamic educational leadership and a model Islamic high school: Insights from Türkiye

    Muhammet Emin Türkoğlu, Hanifi Parlar and Ramazan Cansoy

    Chapter 12 An untold narrative of a female Muslim educational leader

    Tasneem Amatullah

    Chapter 13 Islamic humanocracy and educational leadership: The story of a community school in Egypt

    Dina Hassan El Odessy

    Chapter 14 From community to the state to individual preachers: The vicissitudes of traditional Islamic studies in Malaysia

    Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Amran Muhammad

    Chapter 15 Concluding Remarks

    Khalid Arar, Rania Sawalhi, Amaarah DeCuir and Tasneem Amatullah

Biography

Khalid Arar is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Education and Community Leadership, School Improvement Doctoral Program, College of Education, Texas State University, USA.

Rania Sawalhi is Programming Manager, Qatar Foundation, Qatar.

Amaarah DeCuir is Lecturer, School of Education, American University, USA.

Tasneem Amatullah is Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Assessment and School Evaluation Division, Emirates College for Advanced Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Arar, Sawalhi, DeCuir and Amatullah have expertly gathered scholars from around the world to examine Islamic based educational leadership from multiple perspectives. In doing so, they’ve uncovered critical insights that transcend entrenched socio-cultural and political boundaries, showing readers that there is no ‘typical’ Islamic educational leader. This must-read book reveals the remarkable diversity within ‘Islam-based educational leadership’ and the extraordinary impact the world’s fastest growing religion has on leading schools. It is not to be missed!

Associate Professor Melanie C. Brooks, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia  

A unique and timely collection of articles from across the globe, unveiling the essential tenets of Islamic-based educational leadership and administration while recognising the contextual variations and resulting practices. The four guiding elements can be a starting point for further developing a field of knowledge currently skewed towards Western conceptualisations.

Saeeda Shah, University of Leicester (Retd.) 

This co-edited volume introduces a novel concept, Islam-based educational leadership, as a way to conceptualize the current state of educational leadership practices pertinent to Muslims and Islam. Moreover, the authors ungird this type of leadership in community-informed religious knowledge and practices that decree social justice. This text is a unique and valuable contribution to the field.

Miriam D. Ezzani, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Texas Christian University