AbstractThis article discusses a comparative analysis of education in three countries where the population is predominantly of a Muslim background; Egypt, Iran and Turkey, andexplains about the system of education in primary schools, secondary schools and colleges.Additionally, this article clarifies the latest education policy, curriculum, subjects, andassessment systems in schools and universities. The three countries have some similarities;each country is implementing the policy of compulsory education with it split into threelevels. The other similarity being that is the students have a high interest for furtherstudy in foreign universities with some destination countries being: the United Statesof America, United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Ukraine, Malaysia,France, and Austria. Due to unfavorable politics in both countries of Egypt and Turkey, aswell as Iran, education has been effected by a foreign policy that is often contradictory.