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produced for the trust related to a project for a truck mounted
exhibition space to feature various Islamic themes and with plans to
tour it around schools in the UK. Unfortunately the Islamobile (as
it was affectionately known) turned out to be yet another grandiose
pipe-dream, but before that was clearly apparent I was commissioned
to write a report on Islam related classroom support material
compatible with the National Curriculum, to be produced for
distribution to schools in association with (though not dependent
upon) the Islamobile tour. Nonetheless, dependent or not, yet
another dream of integrating Islamic Studies into UK schools soon
went the way of that never to be heard of again "Islamobile".
Written in 1989, this report had six sections, which for convenience of approach I have split into their separate parts. In fact, parts 1,3,4 & 5 are quite brief and hardly warrant separation, with the bulk of the material contained in parts 2 & 5, and I must say that of them all my favourite is the latter, a model for teaching Islamic Studies based on HMI's proposed approach to a Classics curriculum, which with minimal change so readily lent itself to an approach to Islamic Studies, and so clearly showed the way that non-muslim teachers and educationists could understand how and why Islamic Studies might be integrated into the overall 'non-Islamic' curriculum.
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