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Publish date20 Aug 2014 - 12:28
Story Code : 166720

Scandinavia Gets 1st Islamic Theology School

Turkey’s renowned Islamic Imam Hatip schools, also referred to as Imam Khatib, hasve opened a new branch in the Danish city of Slagelse, offering Scandinavian countries the first-ever Islamic theology school.
Scandinavia Gets 1st Islamic Theology School


The school will accept students from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, World Bulletin reported on Monday, August 18.

Students will be offered the national curriculum along with Turkish and Islamic lessons in the fields of Qur’an, Hadith and Islamic creed.

Boarding school head Ahmet Deniz told Anadolu Agency said that Mina Hindholm will be Denmark\'s first official Islamic school for students aged 18 and up.

The school, which is Europe\'s second Imam Khatib after the one in Belgium, already has 52 students.

The Turkish model of Imam Hatip schools is fusion of Islamic and modern education as it contains as much arts and science classes as normal high schools do.

Originally founded to educate Muslim imams in the 1920s, the imam Hatip syllabus devotes only around 40 percent of study to religious subjects like Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence and rhetoric. The rest is given over to secular topics.

The network has incubated the elite of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party which came to power in Turkey in 2002.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- who went on to study economics -- and around one third of his party\'s MPs attended imam Hatip schools.

In Turkey, Imam Hatip schools are currently attended by about 240,000 of the roughly four million high school students.
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