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Character education occupies a strategic position in Islamic education in Indonesia. its urgency is felt to be conceptually formulated in an Islamic perspective. The study of character education in the thinking of classical to modern Islamic figures has always been an important theme to be studied and developed in the treasury of Islamic education. The underlying background includes: First; character education is an important theme that is of concern to policy makers in formulating educational goals. second; Character education is the main basis for the idea of Islamic education. Third; the concept and thought of character education initiated by classical Islamic intellectuals have similarities and differences with the concept of education originating from the west and the concept of inherited character education from ancient Greece and Arabia.