TY - JOUR AU - Hussien, Suhailah AU - Mamat, Arifin AU - Abdallah, Ssekamanye Siraje PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE PERCEPTIONS, PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF THE INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONGST THE ACADEMICS OF INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (IIUM) JF - Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) JA - SHAJARAH VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.31436/shajarah.v0i0.758 UR - https://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/article/view/758 SP - 117-130 AB - <p>International Islamic University of Malaysia’s (IIUM) vision and&nbsp;mission is its commitment to the integration of values in the modern&nbsp;fields of knowledge. Today, Islamization and integration have&nbsp;emerged as niche areas of the IIUM. There are various phases and&nbsp;orientations of the implementation of Islamization of knowledge&nbsp;(IOK) at the IIUM. The study is important as it helps IIUM to&nbsp;identify and monitor the areas of specialization that need to be&nbsp;improved with regards to the Islamic values integration. Thus, the&nbsp;aim of the paper is to investigate the perceptions and practices of&nbsp;IIUM academics in their efforts to do IOK. The study is exploratory&nbsp;in nature and involves focus group discussion (FGD) with six&nbsp;kulliyyahs namely Kulliyyah of Engineering, ICT, Laws (AIKOL),&nbsp;Economics (ENM), IRKHS, and Science. Each FGD lasted between&nbsp;one to two hours, and involved about five to six lecturers from each&nbsp;Kulliyyah. Three broad themes were generated from the data, which&nbsp;are perceptions, practices and challenges of IOK. The general&nbsp;findings of the study reveal that IIUM academics perceive and&nbsp;practice IOK differently according to their background and various&nbsp;specializations. IIUM academics generally perceive IOK as an&nbsp;important endeavor though challenging, yet differ in their views of its&nbsp;success. Meanwhile, the practices of IOK involve content, teaching&nbsp;and learning, materials, research and publication, assessment, and&nbsp;students. IIUM academics face many challenges in implementing&nbsp;IOK such as lack of resources, lack of academic involvement in IOK&nbsp;activities, and lack of Islamic knowledge to integrate technical,&nbsp;scientific and conventional knowledge. The study suggests that with&nbsp;proper and continuous support from the University, IOK could be&nbsp;implemented more effectively.</p> ER -