In order to enrich the background of Islamic educational thought, and to invest in national intellectual bodies with a global formation, the Faculty of Educational Sciences hosted Professor Dr. Fathi Hassan Malkawi, the Regional Director of the World Institute of Islamic Thought, and the Editor-in-Chief of Islamic Knowledge Magazine, and a member of the Jordanian Arabic Language Complex.
The teacher of the field of Islamic Educational Thought, Professor Dr. Muhammad Amin Hamed, presented the chief guest to the doctoral students enrolled in the field of Islamic educational thought in the presence of the students of the Master in the field of Education and Development and the company of their honorable professor Dr. Abdel Salam Al-Oamrah, commending the guest and his intellectual contributions that were planted and yielded fruit and then extended a period of time It has exceeded half a century of mediocre Islamic intellectual giving.
About his experience of writing an author about contemporary Islamic educational thought, and the subjects of that experience, Dr. Malkawi talks about four sources of Islamic educational thought, the importance of studying heritage as one of the most prominent sources, which expanded to the extent that distinguishes the location of thought through it, and then moved on to talk about the fourth important source from Sources of thought, which Dr. Malkawi linked to the situation, contemporary reality, our problems and contemporary experience as a duty of time, through which one honors the future of the nation. His book has been set across seven chapters based on a psychology base on the number seven as the closest numbers the human mind can capture and remember. As for the justifications of presenting this author to the Arabic and Islamic library, the guest mentioned that the book came to describe reality, and then we need a book that deals with this reality.
The guest concluded his talk on contemporary Islamic educational thought as a very wide space that intersects with the levels of global knowledge and multiple cultures, and needs more research and knowledge from us within the basis of "increase knowledge", then the honorable guest gave a wide space for the input of the students, comments and queries that lasted for two and a half hours, he answered them wisely, before he bids them farewell and thanks them for this elite session.
It is mentioned that Dr. Malkawi, who was born in Jordan in 1943 and worked as a teacher in the Ministry of Education before teaching at the University of Yermouk and at the University of Jordan after receiving a doctorate in scientific education and philosophy of science from the University of Michigan, and a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Jordan, and a high diploma Teaching science from British University of Reading, and Bachelor in Chemistry and Geology from the University of Damascus.