Title:
What is a madrasa?
Author:
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
290 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781469620138
Abstract:
Taking us inside the world of the madrasa -- the most common type of school for religious instruction in the Islamic world -- Ebrahim Moosa provides an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand orthodox Islam in global affairs. Focusing on postsecondary-level religious institutions in the Indo-Pakistan heartlands, Moosa explains how a madrasa can simultaneously be a place of learning revered by many and an institution feared by many others, especially in a post-9/11 world.
General Note:
"Portions of the Prologue and Chapter 1 were first published in the Boston Review as "Inside madrasa: a personal story" on January 7, 2007"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Note on transliteration and translation -- Prologue: Inside madrasas -- Part I. Lived experience. A novice ; Wake, wash, pray ; Becoming scholars -- Part II. History and contexts. Birth of the contemporary madrasa ; Texts and authors ; From a republic of letters to a republic of piety -- Part III. Politics of knowledge. Preserving the prophet's legacy ; Believe, learn, know -- Part IV. Madrasas in global context. Talking about madrasas ; The future of madrasas ; Letter to policy makers ; Letters to my teachers.
Language:
English
