Integrative education refers to an education which attempts to combine two things dichotomically applied in education: religious sciences and general sciences.
K.H. Ahmad Dahlan and K.H. Imam Zarkasyi were education reformers living in the different eras, but have similar perspectives in the development of integrative education.
The present research, therefore, seek to (1) describe the concept of integrative education in the views of K.H. Ahmad Dahlan and K.H. Imam Zarkasyi. (2) analyze differences
and similarities of the concept of integrative education in the view of K.H. Ahmad Dahlan and K.H. Imam Zarkasyi. The research belongs to library research using
historical approach and philosophical approach. Comparative method was applied as the method of data analysis.
The results of the research indicate that 1) the concept of integrative education in the view of K.H. Ahmad Dahlan and K.H. Imam Zarkasyi is the integration of
religious sciences and general sciences inti one educational system; faith, knowledge, and mind are combined into an implementation to deal with the era development when
living in society, 2) both K.H. Ahmad Dahlan’s and K.H. Imam Zarkasyi’s perspectives share differences and similarities; both differ in the educational condition background
and the established educational institutions, while for similarities, both wish for an education which enables to produce intellectual clerics (ulama), and to serve as a means of building sincere, charitable, righteous soul and of actualizing knowledge in real life situation instead of associating it with merely a theory.
Keywords: Integrative education, K.H. Ahmad Dahlan, K.H. Imam Zarkasy
