TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moosa,Ebrahim
TI  - What is a madrasa? /Ebrahim Moosa
T2  - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
SN  - 9781469623337
AV  - LC904 .W438 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Islamic religious education
KW  - Islamic education
KW  - Madrasahs
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Education
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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