The educational systems of Muslim societies, particularly that of Saudi Arabia, have been under scrutiny, especially after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The Saudi educational system is mostly based on Islamic precepts. Nonetheless, the United States government and other critics continue to blame the Saudi educational system on many levels, saying that education in Saudi Arabia mostly encourages the students to engage in violent actions labeled as Jihad. Consequently, these critics have called upon the Saudi government to change its educational system. However, changing the educational system in Saudi Arabia is not an easy task for Saudis as Americans think, because education is associated with IslamCa way of life for the country=s citizens. The American insistence also hinges on the notion that Islamic education and Western education are incompatible. In this paper, I argue that the Arabic term tirbyi, which is translated into English as education, is compatible with Western educational precepts, despite their cultural differences. I also argue that the Islamic educational paradigm transcends pedagogy (the art and science of teaching), andragogy (the art and science of helping adults learn), ergonagy (the art and science of helping people learn to work), and heutagogy (the study of self-determined learning).