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What is a madrasa? /Ebrahim Moosa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469623337
  • 9781469620145
  • 9781474401753
  • 9781474401746
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LC904 .W438 2015
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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