1st Edition

Madrasas in South Asia Teaching Terror?

Edited By Jamal Malik Copyright 2008
200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism. They are suspected to foster anti-western, traditionalist or even fundamentalist views and to train al-Qaeda fighters. This has led to misconceptions on madrasa-education in general and its role in South Asia in particular. Government policies to modernize and ‘pacify’ madrasas have been precipitous and mostly inadequate.... Read more

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction - Jamal Malik

2. Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur - Usha Sanyal

3. Making Muslims: Identity and Difference in Indian Madrasas - Arshad Alam

4. Madrasas: The Potential for Violence in Pakistan? - Tariq Rahman

5. Pakistani Madrasas and Rural Underdevelopment: An Empirical Study of Ahmedpur East - Saleem H. Ali

6. Pakistan’s Recent Experience in Reforming Islamic Education - Christopher Candland

7. The Gender of Madrasa Teaching - Nita Kumar

8. Cinematic Representation of Islamic Learning and Identity Conflict in Bangladesh - Zakir Hossain Raju

9. Power, Purity and the Vanguard: Educational Ideology of the Jama’at-i-Islami of India - Irfan Ahmad

10. In Lieu of a Conclusion - Jamal Malik

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jamal Malik is Chair of Religious Studies - Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His publications include The Colonization of Islam and Islamische Gelehrtenkultur in Nordindien. He edited Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History 1760-1860; Muslims in Europe: From the Margin to the Centre; and co-edited Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe; Sufism in the West (also published by Routledge) and Religion und Medien. Vom Kultbild zum Internetritual (2007).

'This collection of writings on madrasas after 9/11 should be mandatory reading book reviews 429 for those who are studying the contemporary mix (local and international) of religious institutions with politics and economics.'- Mohammad Talib, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies