The British Colonial education system in Pakistan was designed to stop critical thinking and limit the application and advancement of knowledge so the colonies were unable to catch up with them. This is not the current colonial education system in their countries but through research and development, they have elevated the art of instruction and higher-order thinking in students to a higher platform.

In good schools, the learner is free to think and act as a democratic individual grounded in moral values, logic, and a sense of Justice, freedom, and equality. This book covers different aspects of the South Asian and Muslim education systems within the context of the global and historical education debate.

It covers classical education in the Muslim world, its decline, and the over-reliance on the West for subsequent educational reform and inspiration. It aims to offer the definitive Muslim alternative education model of the modern age.

Although it applies these recommendations to South Asia, it hopes to trigger a deeper intellectual discourse on education within South Asia and the wider Muslim world. In regards to Muslim South Asia itself, this book offers an analysis of its history on the development of its educational theory and how to steer this toward a genuinely South Asian system rather than an imitation of the global system.

It considers factors ranging from the dominant national characteristics of the South Asian people to its demographic realities of tribal, feudal, and westernized peoples and finally its religious character within Islam. .