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Faithful education : madrassahs in South Asia /
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, discussions on ties between Islamic religious education institutions, namely madrassahs, and transnational terrorist groups have featured prominently in the Western media. In the frenzied coverage of events, however, vital questions have be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, discussions on ties between Islamic religious education institutions, namely madrassahs, and transnational terrorist groups have featured prominently in the Western media. In the frenzied coverage of events, however, vital questions have been overlooked: What do we know about the madrassahs? Should Western policy-makers be alarmed by the recent increase in the number of these institutions in Muslim countries? Is there any connection between them and the?global jihad?? Ali Riaz responds to these questions through an in-depth examinati. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813545622 0813545625 1281801712 9781281801715 |