By Robert W. Hefner,Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the general public has grappled with the connection among Islamic schooling and radical Islam. Media experiences are inclined to paint madrasas--religious colleges devoted to Islamic learning--as medieval associations against all that's Western and as breeding grounds for terrorists. Others have claimed that with out reforms, Islam and the West are doomed to a conflict of civilizations.
Robert Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman assemble 11 across the world popular students to check the types of smooth Muslim schooling and their implications for nationwide and international politics. The members supply new insights into Muslim tradition and politics in nations as various as Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. They show that Islamic schooling is neither timelessly conventional nor medieval, yet quite complicated, evolving, and numerous in its associations and practices. They show fight for hearts and minds in Muslim lands all started lengthy prior to the Western media found madrasas, and that Islamic faculties stay on its entrance line.
Schooling Islam is the main complete paintings to be had in any language on madrasas and Islamic education.
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