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Shakhsiyah Education Consultancy

Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation (ISF) has been nurturing the educational and spiritual needs of young Muslims since 2002. ISF is currently running two schools in London and Slough, and offers consultancy in Shakhsiyah Education which includes prophetic teaching methodologies, and curricula designed to facilitate each individual child’s educational needs.

Shakhsiyah Schools aim to develop leaders who play an active part in their diverse local and global communities, serving both the Muslim community and humanity and to prepare children for their future life in modern Britain and the global village by developing confidence in their Islamic culture and respect for other cultures, fostering harmony in the diverse communities.

Since the 20th century, Muslim communities have been looking for an educational model that is drawn in Islamic educational thought and meets the needs of today’s children and young people.

Shakhsiyah Education has developed a full educational model for children aged 3-14 years, through which we can support your school to adapt Shakhsiyah Education to your needs.

The Shakhsiyah Education model has been developed through trial and practice over 22 years of work in Shakhsiyah Schools, UK and through Dr Farah Ahmed’s philosophical and empirical research at the University of Cambridge. Our model has several layers that move in meaningful steps from Qur’an and Sunnah through to classroom practice:

We begin by studying Qur’an and Sunnah for example, Understanding Educational Encounter through Hadith Jibrīl

Ḥadīth Jibrīl lays the foundation of our understanding in relation to the purpose, mode and practice of education. It provides us with a robust framework of understanding the key educational concepts of tarbiyah, ta’līm, and ta’dīb and the characterisation of education that we find in terms of imān, Islam and ihsān. These concepts directly relate to the outcome of education: the fulfilment of human potentiality and the process of education

At Shakhsiyah Education Consultancy, we support you in actualising this framework and creating a school model that nurtures the shakhsiyah of your learners.

Opened in the 1960’s as a small bookshop by George McCoy in a quiet neighborhood in Queens.

There is a chance to have a cup of coffee or tea, or during the summer, a glass of lemonade or ice tea and a kolache, an English dessert roll that is common here in New York. We also have other snacks.

In addition, we host a series of programs called A Conversation With in which we host speakers with a wide range of interests and expertise. They take the form of lectures, readings, musical events and gatherings for social occasions. We also feature the work of regional artists in the store on a regular basis.

We harness the Prophet’s method of teaching by developing Halaqah as an oral dialogic pedagogy.

Halaqah is the heart of our curriculum, in which learners and the educator sit in a circle and learn from each other through dialogue, following the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (saw).

Halaqah acts as a starting point for all thematic learning and facilitates learners to connect their Islamic worldview with their subject areas. Halaqah thus draws together all the different subject-specific learning within a ‘theme’.

We’ve evolved from a small bookshop to a bigger community and we’ve gone digital.

There is a chance to have a cup of coffee or tea, or during the summer, a glass of lemonade or ice tea and a kolache, an English dessert roll that is common here in New York. We also have other snacks.

In addition, we host a series of programs called A Conversation With in which we host speakers with a wide range of interests and expertise. They take the form of lectures, readings, musical events and gatherings for social occasions. We also feature the work of regional artists in the store on a regular basis.