The Moral Economy of the Madrasa (eBook, ePUB)

Islam and Education Today
Redaktion: Sakurai, Keiko; Adelkhah, Fariba

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of the role of Madrasas in contemporary Muslim societies across Asia, providing a nuanced understanding of their role in society within their local, national and global context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136894008
• Artikelnr.: 38278924

Autorenporträt

Keiko Sakurai is Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. The author of two books on Iran and a book on the Shia, her major interest lies in the analysis of the social change in contemporary Iran, with the special focus on the role of education. Fariba Adelkhah is Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris. An anthropologist, her main research interests focus on the relationships and interplay between social changes and political transformations throughout the second half of the 20th century in Iran. She has written a number of books on Islam and Iran, and her current research deals with the Iranian Diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education
Today 2. The Rise of the New Madrasas and the Decline of Tribal Leadership
in FATA, Pakistan 3. Women's Empowerment and Iranian-style Seminaries in
Iran and Pakistan 4. Contested Notions of being 'Muslim': Madrasas, Ulama
and the Authenticity of Islamic Schooling in Bangladesh 5. Islamic
Education in China: The Challenge of Educating Hui Women 6. Religious
Dependency in Afghanistan: Shia Madrasas as a Religious Mode of Social
Assertion? 7. Epilogue