Approaches for teaching, learning and doing research as deduced from the Quran and Sunnah

Approaches to teaching and learning keep on changing continuously as evidenced in the development of sub-disciplines dealing with education within the discipline, for example, medical education. This paper brings in another perspective in the search for the ideal teaching and learning approaches. Starting from the Quran and the Sunnah, this paper identifies about 20 different aspects of teaching and learning found in these two Islamic sources. These aspects could be grouped into four categories: pre-learning phase and setting the contextpersonality qualities needed for good teaching and learning relationshipteaching approachesand lastly, approaches for enhancing the learning process. The paper demonstrates the great potential of the Quran and Sunnah for informing on the effective ways for teaching and learning