New Mu'tazila Ideas and Education

پژوهش نامه مبانی تعلیم و تربیت

Article 4, Volume 7, Issue 1 - Serial Number 13, September 2017, Pages 84-102   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/fedu.v7i1.63727

Authors

parvaneh valavi^* ; Ahmad Daram; mohammad jafar pakseresht; Masuod safaie moghaddam

Shahid Chamran University of ahvaz

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to analyze the ideas of New Mu'tazila and Extraction its educational implications. To achieve this goal, the descriptive - analytic method is used. The main concern of New Mu'tazila is to find the agents of the progression and reconstruction of the Islamic world. In their view, Islam is not a factor in Muslim backwardness; it is these misinterpretations and misunderstandings of Islam and the neglect of the position of "reason." One of the most important foundations of New Mu'tazila is "scientism" and "secularism". New Mu'tazila believes that Islam can be compatible with modernity, human rights, democracy and rationality. The results show that in New Mu'tazila education emphasis on, especially academic freedom, educational justice, encouragement of rationality and thinking, innovation, the use of dialogue methods, Reviewing and discussing in education, providing equal education opportunities for men and women, advocating for scientific and fundamental research to solve the crises of contemporary society, combating ignorance and superstition, paying attention to all aspects of human (intellectual, emotional) , Physical, imaginative) in education, the emphasis on the independence and independence of the educational system, and in particular the university, to any government or religious party.

Keywords

New Mu'tazila; Education; Islam

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