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Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity
Dini Madaris in India Post 9/11

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© 2006 | 320 pages | SAGE India
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In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in the United States and the consequent declaration of the global `war on terrorism', madrasa education has received unprecedented attention.

The intensified debates on the role of Muslim educational institutions - the dini madaris - revolve primarily around the following questions:

Is there a link between madaris and violence, anti-national activities, or terrorism?

How transparent is the funding and patronage structure of these Islamic educational networks?

What are the political implications of their educational system?

In answering these questions, the 12 original essays in this volume offer a survey on the phenomenon of madrasa education in India.

Helmut Reifeld
Preface
Jan-Peter Hartung
Towards a Reform of the Indian Madrasa? An Introduction
 
PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Saiyid Naqi Husain Jafri
A Modernist View of Madrasa Education in Late Mughal India
Farhat Hasan
Madaris and the Challenges of Modernity in Colonial India
Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri
Madrasa and Khanaqah, or Madrasa in Khanaqah? Education and Sufi Establishments in Northern India
Syed Najmul Raza Rizvi
Shi'a Madaris of Awadh
Historical Development and Present Situation  
 
PART TWO: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Jan-Peter Hartung
The Nadwat al-`ulama'
Chief Patron of Madrasa Education in India and a Turntable to the Arab World  
S J Paul Jackson
Madrasa Education in Bihar
Arshad Alam
Understanding Deoband Locally
Interrogating Madrasat diya' al-`ulum  
Torsten Tschacher
Islamic Education in a Tamil Town
The Case of Kilakkarai  
 
PART THREE: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey
The First Madrasa
Learned Mawlawis and the Educated Mother  
Mareike Jule Winkelmann
Muslim Reactions to the Post 9/11 Media Discourse on the Indian Madaris
Yoginder Sikand
The Indian Madaris and the Agenda of Reform
 
PART FOUR: A VIEW FROM WITHIN
Syed Abul Hashim Rizvi
The Introduction of Natural Sciences in Madrasa Education in India
Gunter Mulack
Afterword
Dialogue and Cooperation with the Islamic World  

The book covers the subject of Islamic education with particular reference to the dini madrassa system in India. What emerges should interest scholars and other concerned with educational reform…. All the articles in the book are well-researched and provide a wealth of information.

Pakistan Development Review

The book covers the subject of Islamic education with particular reference to the dini madrassa system in India. What emerges should interest scholars and other concerned with educational reform…. All the articles in the book are well-researched and provide a wealth of information.

Pakistan Development Review

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Jan-Peter Hartung

Helmut Reifeld

Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj. More About Author

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