The purpose of this article is to examine historically the dilemma of Islamic Education in practice prioritizing piety and morals or academic achievement or the integration of both and whether student-centered learning comes from the concept of Islam. The results of the discussion concluded that the progress and decline of Islamic education along with political and other developments in each era of large-scale gradations began the attack of the orientalist era of Al Ghozali, external invasion had attacked the heart of Islam which began from the continuous 11th and 12th crusades and Mongol invasion during the 13th century, and afterwards, Islamic education underwent several transformations in its main characteristics even though it was slowe...