Abstract:
Islamic Foundations of Political Education and Its Application in the Era of Omar bin Abdul- Aziz (An Analytical study).
Abstract
The study aims at acknowledging the relationship between politics, education and religion, likewise deriving and displaying the Islamic foundations of educational politics. The study also aims at manifesting the application of these foundations at the time of Umar bin Abdul-Aziz and the consequences of those applications.
The study problem is manifested in the observed lack of addressing political education to many Muslim countries at the current era due to the fact that Muslims have deserted those foundations in their educational system all its educational media and this resulted in the absence of political principles and values in the day-to-day life.
The main question of the study is “what is the actual application of the Islamic foundations of political education at the era of Caliph Omar bin Abdul-Aziz?”
One of the important hypothesis of the study is that, Weak knowledge of the political education and lack of acknowledging the unique models of the application is behind the cause of wrong political practices and consequently the retreat of social development.
The study combined both historical and descriptive methods. The study arrived to various findings important of which are:
In islam there is a solid relation between education, politics and religion because they cannot be detached as important components of building up the muslim personality.
The religious education, the knowledge of Islamic law, fear of Allah and certainty of the day of judgement all has great influence on the righteousness of the ruler and keeping him away from doing wrong and getting him close to justice.
Foundations of education with its principle and values do embody a righteous system that leads to success and balance the relation between the ruler and the ruled.
Caliph Omar bin Abdul-Aziz has applied the righteous system of governance and offered the best model through his total respect of the Islamic political education and through his attitude in running the state.
The right application of the Islamic foundations of political education has resulted in the (Equity State) and achieved the political stability and economic development.