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240310P CRISIS IN KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION: General Outline

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Presentation at a workshop in Kwale, Kenya on Sunday March 10, 2024 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard).

 

1.0 MANIFESTATIONS OF THE KNOWLEDGE CRISIS

A. Quantity and quality:

B. Duality

C. Irrelevance

D. Divorce from morality

E. Brain drain

 

2.0 UMMATIC MALAISE DUE TO THE KNOWLEDGE CRISIS

A. Role of the intellect and knowledge

B. Manifestations of intellectual failure

C. Religious and socio-cultural failure

D. Political and economic dependency 

E. Technological weakness

 

3.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

A. The first generation

B. Destruction of the Khilafat Rashidat

C. Intellectual stagnation

D. Secularization

E. External factors

 

4.0 KNOWLEDGE, A PRE-REQUISITE FOR TAJDID

A. Tajdid and knowledge

B. Revival movements in the early period

C. Revival movements in the recent period

D. Modern revival movements

E. Reasons for success/failure of revival movements 

 

5.0 KNOWLEDGE: STRATEGY, OBLIGATIONS, AND ETIQUETTE

A. Revival and education

B. The new knowledge strategy

C. The school

D. Higher education

E. Education of the masses