The Status-quo of the Islamic Identity among non-Arabic Muslim Minorities Students Studying at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Islamic Education - College of Education for Boys in Cairo - Al-Azhar University

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the status-quo of the Islamic identity among students of non-Arab speaking Muslim minorities studying in Al-Azhar. The study was delimited to students from some countries of the Asian continent located in the south, east and southeast. Such countries are: Thailand, China, India, and Burma, where most of them belong Muslim minorities, and they face many challenges that threaten their Islamic identity. The largest percentage of Muslim minority students who study in Al-Azhar come from these countries, and the study used the fundamentalist curriculum, and the descriptive method. The results of the study revealed that Muslim minority students come from four ten Asian countries, and most of them come from the regions of East Asia and Southeast Asia, as the number of students from these two regions reached 4,739 students, with a percentage of 90.2%. The total number of students from Muslim minorities come from the Asian continent according to the statistics issued by Al-Azhar for the year 2020. The study also found that the degree of availability of the total components of the Islamic identity of those students is (medium) with a mean of (2.54).

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