Taliban Steps up Its ‘Islamisation’ of Universities Agenda
Manija Mirzaie | 21 January 2025 | University World News
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has signalled its intention, via a string of back-to-back policies and directives issued to universities, to speed up the ‘Islamisation’ of public universities, allowing Taliban-linked religious figures without the requisite academic qualifications greater rights to intervene in academic matters.
One directive issued earlier this month by the Higher Education Ministry in Kabul makes it compulsory for Islamic Studies professors at Afghan universities to undergo “proficiency exams” under religious figures holding no formal academic credentials or holding what are described by academics as “vague credentials” from religious seminaries or madrasas in Pakistan….