What Is a Madrasa? /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moosa, Ebrahim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Madrasahs.
Islamic religious education.
Islamic education.
Muslims > Education.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
madrasas (institutions)
Madrasa.
Musulmans > Éducation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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