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Title Schooling Islam : the culture and politics of modern Muslim education / edited by Robert W. Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton studies in Muslim politics
Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Summary 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 for terrorists. Others have claimed that without reforms, Islam and the West are doomed to a clash of civilizations. Robert Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman bring together eleven internationally renowned scholars to examine the varieties of modern Muslim education and their implications for national and global politics. The contributors provide new insights into Muslim culture and politics in countries as different as Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. They demonstrate that Islamic education is neither timelessly traditional nor medieval, but rather complex, evolving, and diverse in its institutions and practices. They reveal that a struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim lands started long before the Western media discovered madrasas, and that Islamic schools remain on its front line. Schooling Islam is the most comprehensive work available in any language on madrasas and Islamic education.
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Subject Islamic religious education.
Islamic religious education.
Madrasahs.
Madrasahs.
Islam and politics.
Islam and politics.
Religion and politics.
Religion and politics.
Religion and culture.
Religion and culture.
Comparative education.
Comparative education.
Indexed Term JSTOR-DDA
Islamic religious education
Madrasahs
Islam and politics
Religion and politics
Religion and culture
Comparative education
Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
Zaman, Muhammad Qasim.
Other Form: Print version: Schooling Islam. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691129327 (DLC) 2006016930 (OCoLC)69423253
ISBN 9781400837458 (electronic book)
1400837456 (electronic book)
9780691129327
0691129320
9780691129334
0691129339