An Introduction to Islamic Education: The Philosophy of Education (Vol.I)

The humanities are mainly intertwined with philosophical ideas and social values based on the principles of non-empirical assumption and influenced by it, and thus must be reconstructed in accordance with correct philosophical thought and acceptable religious and divine values. Among these, educational sciences have a special feature; Because, firstly, the philosophy of education is mainly theoretical and philosophical; Second, the role of philosophical and anthropological perspectives and worldviews in various aspects of education is more than many other fields, and naturally the educational sciences transferred from the West are integrated with Western culture and philosophical thought, and therefore the current educational schools in the West should be criticized in order to separate the cultural aspects from its experimental parts. Thirdly, the religion of Islam has many theories in the field of education and has a comprehensive school and pedagogical system that needs to be extracted, organized, and categorized. With regard to these points, the office of the Research Institute of Hawzeh and University with the help of experts prepared a comprehensive list of issues and topics of educational sciences and prepared the initial plan for compiling books in four axes. (a) Principles and philosophy of education; B) Doctrines on education and its critique; C) pedagogical perspectives of Muslim educators; D) Compilation of a comprehensive system of Islamic pedagogical sciences). The present article is the first volume of this collection that deals with the topics of philosophy and the principles of education.