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Schooling Islam : the Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. Media reports tend to paint madrasas--religious schools dedicated to Islamic learning--as medieval institutions opposed to all that is Western and as breeding grounds fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hefner, Robert W.
Otros Autores: Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and Spelling; Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Culture, Politics, and Future of Muslim Education; CHAPTER 2 Madrasas Medieval and Modern: Politics, Education, and the Problem of Muslim Identity; CHAPTER 3 Tradition and Authority in Deobandi Madrasas of South Asia; CHAPTER 4 Madrasas and Minorities in Secular India; CHAPTER 5 The "Recentering" of Religious Knowledge and Discourse: The Case of al-Azhar in Twentieth-Century Egypt; CHAPTER 6 Madrasas in Morocco: Their Vanishing Public Role.