Elementary Education and Motivation in Islam: Perspectives of Medieval Muslim Scholars, 750–1400 CE
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  • Muhammad Al Ibrashi—Education in Islam
  • Avner Gil’adi—Children of Islam: Concepts of Childhood in Medieval Muslim Society,‘Concepts of Childhood and Attitudes Towards Children in Medieval Islam’, and ‘Individualism and Conformity in Medieval Islamic Educational Thought: Some Notes with Special Reference to Elementary Education’
  • A. S. Tritton—Materials on Muslim Education
  • George Makdisi—The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West
  • Michael Chamberlain—Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus
  • Charles Stanton—Higher Learning in Islam: The Classical Period A.D. 700–1300
  • Sebastian Günther—‘Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sann and al-Ji on Pedagogy and Didactics’ and ‘Be Masters in that You Teach and Continue to Learn’
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

    • In Arabic, the works of the following scholars proved most useful:

  • Amad Amn—u l-Islm
  • Amad Fu’d al-Ahwn—Al-Tarbiya f l-Islm
  • Muammad Munr Murs—Al-Tarbiya al-Islmiyya Uluh wa Taawwuruh f l-Bild al-’Arabyya
  • Amn Ab Lw—Ulu-l-Tarbiya al-Islmiyya

    • These secondary sources were used in three ways. Firstly, they helped me select the appropriate primary sources. I often found myself reading medieval Muslim works on education and history only to reach a dead end or find little material on elementary education, childhood, or motivation. Secondly, they shed some light on the primary sources, which sometimes proved fuzzy. Finally, I have used them whenever the primary sources were not, or were no longer, at my disposal.