Classes were once held in the open air, under a tree, or in a small room of an Ethiopian traditional building constructed of wood and mud with crumbling walls, leaking roofs, and pupils sitting in ...

Curriculum renewal in Islamic settings is long overdue, according to a new guidebook, which calls for Islamic education to better reflect the changing contexts of the religion in the modern world. It ...

The closure of the secondary section of the Al-Madinah free school in Derby will be celebrated by those who oppose free schools and what are euphemistically labelled “faith” schools. Whatever the ...

Four years ago, the International Leadership School started with 85 students in a commercial space off Parnell Avenue. By the next year, the Muslim-based religious school had grown to 147. This year ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties.

The issue of the right of Afghan girls and women to education has become a matter of growing international concern since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Aware of the fact that in order to ...

Jose Padilla, the so-called "dirty bomber," is entering the seventh week of his trial in Miami. He stands accused, among other things, of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

The staircase that leads to the row of cells in Bukhara’s Mir-i Arab madrasa is steep and narrow. Ascending necessitates a bow that feels suitably reverent. Akbarali Mamadaliyev, 24, has been treading ...