Educational Modeling of Islamic Lifestyle in Sūrat al-Nūr with a Comprehensive Approach in the Modern Age

Nassaj, Maryam; Sadeghiyan, Mehri

doi:10.22034/jksl.2025.499123.1430

Educational Modeling of Islamic Lifestyle in Sūrat al-Nūr with a Comprehensive Approach in the Modern Age

Authors

Maryam nassaj ¹

Mehri Sadeghiyan ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor (Teacher), Department of Primary Education, Farhangian University, Isfahan, Iran

10.22034/jksl.2025.499123.1430

Abstract

Despite the comprehensiveness of Sūrat al-Nūr, no holistic educational model for Islamic lifestyle that adequately responds to the challenges of the modern age has yet been derived from it. The purpose of this study is to construct such an educational model, based on the comprehensive approach. This qualitative research employs thematic analysis, collecting and coding themes with the aid of MAXQDA software. The findings demonstrate that, through a holistic perspective, the surah addresses various crises of modernity: the crisis of spirituality in the doctrinal, devotional, and ethical dimensions (connection with God and reliance on His guidance, integration of faith and practice in life, cultivation of moral values); the crisis of face-to-face communication and complex sedition in political and social dimensions (constructive social interaction, optimization of the judicial and legal system); the crisis of materialism in economic and professional dimensions (attention to the divine aspect in economic matters, avoidance of extremes, adherence to moderation); the crisis of diminishing authentic aesthetics in the artistic dimension (collective moral beauty, spiritual beauty, beauty of nature); the crisis of information explosion in the scientific and technological dimension (linking rational scientific thought with insightful and truth-seeking scholarship); and the crisis of excessive externalism in the bodily dimension (protective and reformative modesty and dress).

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Keywords

educational model

crises of the modern age

comprehensive approach

Islamic lifestyle

Sūrat al-Nūr

Subjects

The Holy Qur’an.

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