Following Al-Hassaniya Lectures organized by Morocco’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, H.E. Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA), delivered a lecture entitled “Educational Stages between Tradition and Renewal: A Reading of the Traditional Educational System in the Light of Reality” on Tuesday 16 Ramadan 1445, corresponding to 26 March 2024 at Dar Al-Hadith Al-Hussaniya in the Moroccan capital, Rabat.

His Excellency began his lecture by extending his sincere thanks to Dar Al-Hadith Al-Hassaniya for the warm welcome and for their successful organization of the event he described as a renewed look at the issue of education on the globe in general and in the Muslim world in particular. His Excellency presented an overview of the history of the emergence of the prevailing traditional educational stages, stating that the current educational stages date from the 19th century.

Accordingly, His Excellency spoke about the reality of the educational stages that we inherited, which have become part of our daily lives, calling for more attention to these educational stages, for which he presented a vision for “reviewing these stages to become stages that reflect the reality in which we live and meet the ambitions and challenges faced by the Ummah, explaining that educational stages are the school years during which young people receive a large amount of information, skills, principles, and values that help them face the challenges, advance their peoples and develop their countries based on what these skills, values, and principles include in their guidance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to review the traditional educational stages to adjust the quantity and type of information, skills, and knowledge required at each stage of education in light of the challenges of the current era.”

His Excellency concluded his lecture by calling on to benefit from modern industrial progress and the boom in information and means of education, making all stages of education within these criteria in order to prepare and enable current generations to participate in building society. His Excellency also called to work on reducing the information input in these educational institutions, because much of these information are secondary and complementary and not basic and vital to form learners in a way that may contribute to building nations and societies”.