Character education based on religion is highly needed to cultivate a generation that is both intelligent and noble in character. An Islamic school culture serves as a means of instilling values through habits, rules, and traditions. The thoughts of Al-Ghazali, Ibn Khaldun, Ki Hajar Dewantara, and Thomas Lickona emphasize the need to combine knowledge, deeds, exemplary behavior, and collaboration among schools, families, and communities. Previous research indicates that routine religious activities strengthen religious awareness, discipline, honesty, responsibility, and tolerance. The challenges include differences in value application at home, diverse student backgrounds, time constraints, and the negative impacts of the external environment and digital media. The novelty of this study lies in the comprehensive mapping of the relationship between Islamic culture, character, and its supporting and inhibiting factors within a single framework. The method used is library research, which is described descriptively.
Adolescence is a crucial developmental stage characterized by physical, psychological, and socio-economic changes. Islamic religious education plays a strategic role in shaping adolescent character and morals while preventing juvenile delinquency. The family, as the first and foremost educational institution, holds central responsibility for internalizing moral and religious values. However, this process often falls short due to mismatches between educational methods and the psychological characteristics of adolescents, who tend to be critical of authority. Contributing factors to juvenile delinquency within the family include lack of attention, affection, supervision, role modeling, as well as conflict and disharmony. This study employs a library research approach, analyzing various scientific literatures. The findings indicate that optimizing the function of Islamic education through the Islamic Parenting program—encompassing democratic parenting, role modeling, and advice-based approaches—is effective in cultivating noble character, independence, responsibility, and adolescent awareness of truth values. These three parenting styles must be applied consistently to enable families to create a harmonious, safe, and supportive environment for the positive character development of adolescents.
Rapid transformations in contemporary education, driven by technological advancements, globalization pressures, and secular value shifts create multifaceted challenges for nurturing students' moral and spiritual growth. This situation calls for reinforcing core Islamic educational principles to ensure their continued applicability in today's learning environments. The study examines the alignment between Islamic pedagogy and modern educational frameworks by analyzing Sharia-based sources as epistemological foundations. Employing a qualitative approach through literature review, the research draws from Quranic verses, prophetic traditions, classical exegeses, scholarly books, and relevant peer-reviewed journals. Findings reveal substantial convergence between Islamic education's foundational concepts such as divine unity (tawhid), ethical conduct (adab), moral development (akhlak), and holistic human potential and modern education priorities, particularly character formation, intellectual-spiritual balance, and ethical strengthening among learners. These results affirm that Islamic education complements rather than conflicts with contemporary systems, serving as a values-based framework to navigate modernity's complexities. Thus, Islamic education must evolve contextually and adaptively integrating religious principles into curricula, teaching methodologies, and educational technologies to function as a comprehensive, identity-preserving solution.
Student character should be strengthened by instilling values that emphasize moral and spiritual dimensions in addition to academics, in line with the demands of the times and changes in society in education. One strategy to create a learning environment that can shape students' character comprehensively is by integrating Islamic teachings into school culture. The aim of this study is to see how Islamic principles are applied in school culture, how they are implemented in the classroom, and how they affect students' character development. This study analyzes various literature, including scientific papers related to the research problem, using a library research method. The findings show that regular religious activities, role modeling by teachers, the implementation of Islamic principles in education, and creating a school environment that supports character development are ways Islamic values are integrated into school culture. Student character traits such as being religious, disciplined, responsible, tolerant, and socially caring are partly shaped through this integration. Thus, an Islamic-based school culture can be used as a teaching strategy in an ongoing process to develop students' moral character.
This study examines the use of Islamic slang as a communication style and its role in shaping the religious identity of Generation Z students in school environments. The research aims to analyze how Islamic slang is used in students' daily interactions, its contribution to the construction of religious identity, its influence on communication patterns among students, and its role in strengthening religious character and conveying Islamic values. This study employed a qualitative library research approach by reviewing books, journal articles, and other relevant scholarly sources related to sociolinguistics, Islamic communication, and youth language. The collected data were analyzed descriptively through data reduction, categorization, interpretation, and synthesis. The findings indicate that Islamic slang functions not only as a form of informal communication but also as a symbolic expression of students' religious identity. The use of expressions such as mā shāʾ Allāh, astaghfirullāh, barakallāh, akhi, and ukhti contributes to strengthening interpersonal relationships, fostering a sense of belonging among peers, and supporting the internalization of Islamic values in everyday communication. Furthermore, Islamic slang reflects an adaptive strategy for contemporary da'wah that aligns with the characteristics of Generation Z. However, its use requires appropriate guidance to preserve the sacred meanings of religious expressions and ensure their contextual and ethical application in educational settings
