Journal of Islamic Studies, Prince of Songkla University

This issue of JOIS takes readers through the qualities of Wasaṭīyah-based leadership shaping Muslim university students in the southern border provinces, helping them stand firm on principle amid the currents of liberalism, before opening up a fresh perspective on Islamic private school management through the "WE Model," which shifts administrators from command-and-control toward trust-based empowerment by weaving together spirituality, shura consultation, and ihsan excellence. Next comes a teacher development model that fuses Western Growth Mindset thinking with Islamic values to cultivate twenty-first-century educators, while another corner of the issue listens to young voices in Phuket negotiating their Muslim identity amid multicultural change, and travels to Satun and Songkhla to see how Islamic private schools build professional learning communities and quality cultures in practice. The issue closes by turning back the clock to the golden age of Islamic expansion into Khorasan and Transoxiana, then offers a comparative legal analysis of religious property frameworks between Islamic waqf and Buddhist monastic land in the Thai context — rounding out a volume rich with spiritual, educational, social, and historical dimensions all in one.