INTEGRATION OF BIOLOGICAL TEACHING OF ISLAM IN THE UNIVERSITY

Islamic education & curriculum integration By Ajid M. Sari (Mindanao State University - Sulu) Published August 16, 2025 Vol 2 • Issue 2

Abstract

The teaching of biological science in most learning institutions today has been secular in nature. Cross examination of biological science in the light of Islam has yet to be promoted. Secularization separates biological science from that of the divine one. The present curriculum and syllabi used in most of the higher learning institutions today are secularized. The teachings of Qur’an on science are not integrated in the teaching of biological science. There has not been yet an integration of the biological science teaching of Islam in the university despite Islam calls for learning and thinking and encourages scientific advancement, and Islam is defined as a complete way of life and biology is a study of life. On the contrary, Muslim educators and learners have become dependent on the western science which does not acknowledge divine knowledge thus making the students estranged from Allah. Hence, there is a need that the teaching of some biological theories and concepts should be within the context of Islam. Certain biological theories and principles have to be based on Islamic context as what scholars have confirmed that the study of biological science is not against Islam. In order to accept the true meaning of life, educators and learners can only understand such meaning in the teachings of Islam.