What Is a Madrasa? /
Moosa takes you into the world of madrasa classrooms, scholars and texts, recounting the daily life and discipline of the inhabitants. He shows that madrasa are a living, changing entity, and the site of contestation between groups with varying agendas, goals and notions of modernity.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Note on transliteration and translation
- Prologue: inside madrasas
- Lived experience. A novice ; Wake, wash, pray ; Becoming scholars
- History and contexts. Birth of the contemporary madrasa ; Texts and authors ; From a republic of letters to a republic of piety
- Politics of knowledge. Preserving the prophet's legacy ; Believe, learn, know
- Madrasas in global context. Talking about madrasas ; The future of madrasas ; Letter to policy makers ; Letters to my teachers.