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