The madrasah concept of Islamic pedagogy

As higher education has become increasingly internationalized, with unprecedented cultural and religious diversity, there seems to be a call for a more heterogeneous understanding of educational thought. Our research supports a need to broaden our understanding of higher education traditions in pedagogy by looking beyond our contemporary university institutions. Raising our understanding of higher education madrasahs offers one such route. Our theoretical research offers an insight into the characterising concepts of Islamic pedagogy that are represented by the interplay between memorization, orality and the use of the written word in supporting the learning process. The notion of Islamic pedagogy is defined from a madrasah perspective, which requires empathy with the Islamic premise of the inseparable nature of knowledge and the sacred.