In medieval Islamic times and afterwards, the kuttāb was a modest institution for elementary education, with most emphasis being placed on learning the Qurʾān by heart―hence a ‘Qurʾānic school’ in English. Thus far, the topic of the kuttāb has been addressed by only a few modern works, leaving inadequately researched a number of critical related issues. This article is an attempt to give insights into the intellectual development of Muslim pedagogy in such archetypal primary schools. It looks into the teaching programmes and methods adopted for that intellectual preparation as well as their assumptions, rationales, implications, and consequences. The kuttāb's objectives are usually thought of as being universally identical, to help in the formation of a good Muslim. The picture, however, was more multifaceted, and the objectives, as well as means of their realisation, were moulded based on what a ‘good Muslim’ would mean according to those in command. Administrating the katātīb was a source, and a symptom, of competitive rivalry between the different intellectual tendencies in medieval Islam, who jostled for control over these critically significant institutions. The article thus delves into the intellectual, cultural, and socio-economic contexts in which primary education materialised and was practiced in pre-modern Islam.

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年轻的穆斯林思想是如何形成的？对中世纪伊斯兰教中 kuttab 的批判性研究

在中世纪的伊斯兰时代及以后，库塔布是一所简陋的基础教育机构，最重视的是背诵古兰经——因此是英语的“古兰经学校”。至此，话题库塔布仅由少数现代著作解决，而对一些关键的相关问题研究不足。本文试图深入了解此类原型小学中穆斯林教育学的智力发展。它研究了为这种智力准备而采用的教学计划和方法，以及它们的假设、基本原理、影响和后果。这库塔布的目标通常被认为是普遍相同的，以帮助形成一个好的穆斯林。然而，这幅画更具多面性，目标以及实现目标的手段是根据“好穆斯林”对当权者的意义而塑造的。管理卡塔提布是中世纪伊斯兰教中不同思想倾向之间竞争性竞争的根源和症状，他们争夺对这些至关重要的机构的控制权。因此，本文深入探讨了小学教育在前现代伊斯兰教中实现和实践的知识、文化和社会经济背景。