المؤسسات التعليمية الإسلامية في كينيا : دراسة موجزة لأهم المؤسسات القائمة حاليا

Abstract EN

Kenya is one of the countries that Islam reached during the first century of Hijra.

Later on, many Islamic emirates were established along Kenyan coastal line due to continuous immigrations from the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Iran to East Africa; such as:to Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa emirates which put Kenya within the Islamic belt in East Africa.

When colonialism came to Kenya in ١٨٨٤, it discovered the domination of Islam among East African peoples, and put new strategy to isolate it from its Islamic environment, and worked effectively to replace Islamic culture with western culture through setting up churches and giving them absolute freedom to preach Christianity among citizens, while such opportunity was not given to any other religion or culture.

The churches continued dominating Kenyan educational sector after independence as it did in the colonial period, and many Muslim students were forced to learn Christianity in Christian schools and universities.

When Muslim the community felt the need for Muslim integrated educational institutions due to the above mentioned reasons, they established integrated schools to fill this gap, provide Muslim generations with knowledge and harmonize them with their Kenyan nationals and prepare them to participate in building their country, while preserving their religious and cultural identity.

This research displays the main Muslim educational institutions in Kenya from primary to University, with brief information about the institution's' site, history, levels, components and activities.

I have divided the research into preface, four topics, conclusion and references.

In the preface, I mentioned the abstract, study’s background and previous studies of the topic.

While in the four folders, I mentioned a brief general information about Kenya, Islam’s history in Kenya, Muslim provinces in Kenya and the main Muslim educational institutions in Kenya.

In conclusion, I summarized the research’s main points along with my suggestions, while I concluded the study with list of my references.