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Religion, Education and Governance in the Middle East
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95This interdisciplinary book explores the historical and contemporary role of religious tradition and education on political elites and governing agencies in several major states as well as generally in the region. The relationship between democracy and authority is examined to provide a better understanding of the complexity underlying the emergence... more...
Canadian Education
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is an absolutely critical volume bridging a number of key areas in Canadian education classroom politics, schools, teachers work, higher education, and much more with the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault. The result is illuminating, engaging, and critically... more...
Reading with Allah
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 110.00Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, ?secular? education and gender in this context, while exploring the myths that surround these institutions.... more...
Islamischer Religionsunterricht in Deutschland
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 32.60Hauptbeschreibung Mit rund 4 Millionen Anhängern nehmen Muslime in Deutschland eine bedeutende gesellschaftliche Stellung ein. Fragen der Integration und eine sachlich-fachliche und praktikable Vermittlung des muslimischen Glaubens sind daher so dringlich wie nie. Mit dem Bedürfnis nach verständlichem und verlässlichem Wissen über die islamische... more...
Culture, Identity, and Islamic Schooling
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 32.00Merry elaborates an ideal type of Islamic philosophy of education in order to examine the specific challenges that Islamic schools face, comparing the different educational realities facing Muslim populations in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States. more...
ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN SU & SUCC
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 158.00This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim communities in all parts of the Soviet Union attached... more...
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills
BRILL 2009; US$ 295.00The present volume examines the development of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial and colonial Zanzibar, focussing on patterns of cooperation between religious scholars and the British colonial state and highlights the effects of the Zanzibar revolution of 1964 on the development of Islamic education and Islamic traditions of learning in Zanzibar... more...
Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2009; US$ 49.90This is a remarkable piece of scholarship that illuminates general and specific tendencies in Islamic education in South Thailand. Armed with an enormous amount of rich empirical detail and an elegant writing style, the author debunks the simplistic Orientalist conceptions of Wahhabi and Salafi influences on Islamic education in South Thailand. This... more...
The Madrasa in Asia
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 49.95The Madrasa in Asia presents a nuanced overview of the unknown world behind the walls of these traditional Islamic schools in Asia. more...









