It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of a great leader in the world of Islamic academia. After two years of battling, cancer ultimately took his life. Brother Dawud Tauhidi is succeeded by his five wonderful children and, of course, hundreds of children whom he taught or was acting principal for.
After becoming Muslim in 1972, Atauhidi wasted no time in learning Arabic and Islamic studies. It soon became clear that his heart's passion lay in the field of academia. Thus, Dawud Tauhidi founded the Tarbiyah Project and he co-founded the Michigan Islamic Academy in Ann Arbor, MI. Later he became the principal and director of Crescent Academy International in Canton for several years.
Find out about this great man in this mini biography below. And let us pray for his soul and his remaining family.
Dawud Tauhidi (1949-2010)
Dawud Tauhidi, a native of Philadelphia, embraced Islam in 1972. He studied at Lehigh University and later studied Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980, he graduated from al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt with a degree in Usul ad-Din and taught at the Islamic Community Center School in Philadelphia.
In 1983, Mr. Tauhidi completed his master's degree in Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan and in 1985 completed his doctoral candidacy examinations in the same field. During that time, he served as a teaching assistant, research assistant and nearly completed a second master's degree in Teaching Arabic as a Second Language. His research interests have included Towards a Model of an Islamic Philosophy of Education, Educational Institutions in Early Islam, the Affective Domain in Second Language Acquisition, Statistical and Lexical Studies of the Quranic Lexicon, Semantic Structures and Worldview of the Quran, and other topics.
For more than two decades, Mr. Tauhidi has been involved in various aspects of Islamic education - as a teacher, researcher, administrator and curriculum developer. Since 1985, he has been actively involved in establishing Islamic schools in North America and was a founding member of the Council of Islamic Schools in North America (CISNA). In 1985, he co-founded the Michigan Islamic Academy in Ann Arbor, MI, where he served as its founding Principal for three years. In 1988, he helped form the Michigan Education Council and co-founded Crescent Academy International, a college-preparatory, Islamic school in suburban Detroit, where he has served as Director since 1988.
Mr. Tauhidi has experience in the planning and establishment of schools, policy development, school administration, curriculum development, Teaching Arabic as a Second Language, holistic education, character education, public relations, computer programming, multimedia and graphic design, and fundraising for Islamic schools.
During the past twelve years, Mr. Tauhidi has been developing an integrated curriculum for Islamic education, known as the Tarbiyah Project. The aim of this project is to provide a more effective paradigm for teaching today's Muslim children based on a holistic and integrated approach to education known as the Integrated Learning Model (ILM2).
