REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOSQUES AND HOLY QURAN SCHOOLS WORK AT THE MINISTRY OF AWQAF AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRSIN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN: DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

This quantitative study discusses the regulations governing the work of mosques and schools of the Holy Quran in the Sultanate of Oman. The problem is that there are many deficiencies in terms of administrative, technical and legal in the regulation of the mosques work for the year (2010), also for the regulation issued  by the government in (1999) governing the work of the Koran schools; is not currently working in the ministry. Also, the occupants of the Quran teachers post; some of them are ministry employees, some of them are not qualified to fill this post carries the secondary school certificate, as well as the presence of volunteers for teaching are lacking quality standards, and they are not subjected to training or rehabilitation programs. Therefore, the research aims to discuss the regulations governing the work of mosques and schools of the Holy Quran in the Sultanate of Oman. The researcher uses the descriptive method, where the study community consists of the mosque's number of (200), as well as the agents in charge of the Quran schools (20) in Dhofar Governorate, questionnaire distributed to the entire study community, of which (167) were returned for analysis. The researcher prepared a questionnaire with two sections, first part of (17) paragraphs measures the role played by the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the development of the organizing regulations. The second part; includes the obstacles that were distributed in (22) paragraphs. The findings of the study indicated that: the need to develop regulations governing the work of mosques and schools of the Holy Quran, by the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the Sultanate of Oman that reached a high degree.The obstacles related to the staff working in the mosques department and the Holy Quran schools were first, followed by obstacles related to the environment, then the obstacles related to the mosques and the Koran schools, and finally the obstacles related to the ministry. Keywords: organizing regulations, mosques working, Quran schools.