PRACTICE

(ON PHENOMENON OF LEARNING THOROUGH ADVENTURES FROM THE MADRASAH)

Abstract

This article examines phenomenon of learning in the Islamic schools through retrospective description of practice as a separate boarding-school program in the Ghazi Husrev- bey’s Madrasah boarding-school. For the author, practice is a symbol of Muslim relationship with knowledge, where learning through memorizing, acts as undisputed equivalent of knowledge in general. Creativity, reading and thinking are second-class ideals. Individual fates of the students are unfolding in the shadow of practice, didactic materialism, learning by memorizing and unsuccessful methodological methods. Those students, in fact, remained denied of their youth, creativity and synthesis that is acquired based on their own experiences, due to atavistic understanding of knowledge. In addition, practice reveals a specific epistemological discourse specific for almost all of the Muslims schools. That discourse persists for thousands of years and represents one of the fundamental causes for the Muslim decadence.