ABSTRACT
The growth of Islamic schools under the vision of by and large South Asian, Arab, and African Muslim immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s was largely a reaction to the lack of religious accommodations made by the public education system. For African American Muslims, it was different; schools were established to take control of their children’s potential in response to segregated schools and unequal educational opportunities. Born and raised in North America, second-generation Muslims along with converts have become the new voice of Islam seeking to reclaim their faith. Many Islamic schools are redefining the success of the school based on community involvement and civic engagement more explicitly. In an age when martyrdom is misconstrued and misused, her words of inspiration define the agenda of Islamic education from within a rich tradition of scholarship. The directions in which ideology shift takes us in terms of models of Islamic education will only become evident with time.
