ABSTRACT
The 1977 First World Conference on Muslim Education in Makkah was significant as it marked the acknowledgment by the Muslim world of the ‘crisis’ in Muslim education. The conference was successful in raising the consciousness of the Muslim world to the basic issues of liberalizing secularization within the inherited public education system due to Western colonialization on the one hand, and the rigid and conserving traditional religious education on the other hand. These two systems are dualistic in nature and cannot be merged unless a new system is developed to integrate Western sciences with Islamic knowledge and teachings.
