Democratic Education and Muslim Philosophy

Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic education; and leadership and management inquiry.  Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is Principal Editor of Citizenship Teaching and Learning, and Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Higher Education.

• Chapter 1. Democratic Education and Deliberative Freedom: A Defence of Co-learning.- Chapter 2. Democratic Education and Iterations: On the Emotion of Talking Back.- Chapter 3. Democratic Education and Gratitude.- Chapter 4. Belligerence and Distress as Emotions in Democratic Education.- Chapter 5. Democratic Education and Compassion.- Chapter 6. Adab and Democratic Education.- Chapter 7. Ibn al-Arabi’s Idea of Al-insan Al-kamil (the Perfect Human) and Democratic Education.- Chapter 8. Ibn Sina’s Notion of Intuition and Claims of Democratic Education.- Chapter 9. Fazlur Rahman’s Notion of Shura and Its Implications for Democratic Education.- Chapter 10. Muhammad Iqbal’s Conception of Ijtihad and Its Implications for Democratic Education.