ABSTRACT
Religious education in Lebanon has long being organized, which made it an intellectual lighthouse not just for Lebanon, but also the whole Arab world. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Shia-majority Jabal Amel (South Lebanon) witnessed a scientific renaissance that included religious education through developing new teaching styles and ways of thinking. While these universities are primarily concerned with Shariah programs, some of them have also expanded to include other programs, such as the public management program in al-Awzai University. Like in many Arabic and Islamic countries, the curricula in Lebanon is combining Ashari/Azhari and Salafi curricula, with the first playing the larger role in orienting knowledge on the formal and informal levels. It is clear that the empirical field aspect changes from one university to the next, depending on the way of approaching reality in framing jurisprudential theorization in the university.
