Online Qurʾān Education and Teaching in the Pandemic Period: The Case of the Faculty of Islamic Sciences AYBU and CAKU

Abstract

The education and teaching of the Qurʾān has continued until today with ṣaḥīḥ sanad starting with the methods of ʿarḍ and samāʿ between Gabriel and the Prophet (pbuh), then Muhammad (pbuh) and the companions, and through them it was transferred to the tābiʿīn to imāms of qirāʾa. Due to Covid-19 in 2019, this education could not be done face-to-face in some places. The education activities continued through online applications. Thus Qurʾān education at universities continued online in this period. Our research covers the practices of Qurʾān education in this process at AYBU (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University) and ÇAKU (Çankiri Karatekin University) Faculties of Islamic Sciences. In this research, the aim is to evaluate Recitation of Qurʾān and Tajweed courses from the aspect of instructors and students in pandemic period and to present advantages and disadvantages of teaching this course with distance education based on scientific research and determination. The semi-structured interview form is used by applying document analysis technique with instructors, and qualitative research method is used by applying questionnaires to students to collect data for our research, in line with expert opinion. The data, analyzed with the SPSS program, shows that Recitation of Qurʾān and Tajweed courses with face-to-face education are more productive than online education. The students were suffered from certain systemic problems even if they save time as they could have the opportunity to attend classes from where they were. Consequently, the students attending the courses during online period regularly became more successful when they turned back to the face-to-face education, as they did not break away from education.