Muslim Education and Claims of Justice in a Global Post-modern World

Abstract

As with any form of education, the literature is replete with multiple understandings of Muslim education. For purposes of this contribution, the focus is on ta’arruf (associational knowing) and its concomitant link with claims of justice (‘adl’’). In this contribution, justice is examined in relation to the cultivation of human action that interrelates with reasonableness, responsibility, and cosmopolitan action. In this way, it is argued that education as associational knowing without reasonableness, responsibility and cosmopolitanism would not enhance defensible human action in a global world, where there exist many forms of truth, in particular the truth of denial and unbridled scepticism.