“…Although both the Islamic and the Western education system, of course, have many variations, Burde et al (2015) highlighted common differences. First, instead of aiming to cultivate autonomous critical thinking, as in liberal Western approaches to education, Islamic education purposes to develop all aspects of the self in a way thought to bring the human closer to God (Halstead, 2004; Boyle, 2006; Halstead, 2007; Alavi, 2007). This goal leads to Islamic education to have several common characteristics.…”