This project aims to begin an academic and practitioner dialogue on the broad field of Islam, Science and Education, particularly in Muslim contexts. Our long term aim is to support educators seeking to address and navigate perceived conflicts between the teaching of Islam and the teaching of Science and to address challenging questions from their learners.

We acknowledge that competing epistemologies, ontologies and ethical perspectives make this a challenging and controversial field. The project aims to develop critical consciousness in both educators and learners to consider challenges to a positivist approach that sees Science as ‘objective knowledge’ and to recognise the role of Science as part of a wider modernist and colonial project. Further, we seek to develop educator confidence to approach the teaching of Science through an ethical orientation that supports Scientific research from within an Islamic worldview and to acknowledge that there are multiple ways of doing this. Finally, we seek to support educators to draw on the Islamic intellectual tradition and scholarly adab to begin to navigate the teaching of Science in Muslim contexts. As always, the Islamic Educator Learning Community Platform is a space for respectful dialogue towards education in Muslim contexts. The views expressed by individuals in this project are their own and are not the policy or views of the platform or those running it.

The Islam, Science and Education Conference is part of the Cambridge Dialogues: Rethinking Islamic Education project at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. The educator workshops are in partnership with the Islamic Educator Learning Community Platform

Conference Details: Please see this overview at the University of Cambridge site.

Conference Location: Online

Conference dates: 1st – 2nd July 2023

Conference Timings: 12pm – 4.45pm British Summer Time

Conference Programme available here

Some of the sessions are available as videos on our Youtube channel.

Usama Javed Mirza (ujm20@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Farah Ahmed (fa287@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik (sm02@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk)

Dr Nadeem Memon (Nadeem.Memon@unisa.edu.au)

Dr Fella Lahmar (fella.lahmar@open.ac.uk)

University of Cambridge Faculty of Education

Camtree: the Cambridge Teacher Research Exchange

Leverhulme Trust