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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hefner, Robert W., 1952- (Editor), Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Series:Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The culture, politics, and future of Muslim education / Robert W. Hefner
  • Madrasas medieval and modern: politics, education, and the problem of Muslim identity / Jonathan P. Berkey
  • Tradition and authority in Deobandi madrasas of South Asia / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • Madrasas and minorities in secular India / Barbara Metcalf
  • The "recentering" of religious knowledge and discourse: the case of al-Azhar in twentieth-century Egypt / Malika Zeghal
  • Madrasas in Morocco: their vanishing public role / Dale F. Eickelman
  • Islam and education in secular Turkey: state policies and the emergence of the Fethullah Gülen Group / Bekim Agai
  • Pesantren and madrasa: Muslim schools and national ideals in Indonesia / Azyumardi Azra, Dina Afrianty, and Robert W. Hefner
  • The transformation of Muslim schooling in Mali: the madrasa as an institution of social and religious mediation / Louis Brenner
  • Islamic education in Britain: approaches to religious knowledge in a pluralistic society / Peter Mandaville
  • Competing conceptions of religious education / Muhammad Qasim Zaman.