Hasan A. Yahya, professor of Educational Administration
This article in a series of articles on education in the Arab countries. In Islam, as a way of life, the first and most venerated word in the Koran is “read;” learning is believed to make a person more faithful to God, and more useful to humanity. In Islam, acquiring knowledge is equated with seeking the truth. As the great Arab philosopher Abu Yusef Al-Kindi (805-873) said: “We should not shy away from welcoming and acquiring the truth regardless of where it comes from, even if it comes from distant races and nations that are different from us. Nothing is more important than seeking the truth except the truth itself.”
