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The book is a blend of autobiography, advocacy, ethnography, and history and gives an insider perspective of the Deobandi madrasas in the Indian subcontinent. It was published by University of North Carolina Press in April 2015. [1]
- English
- Ebrahim Moosa
- April 2015
- University of North Carolina Press
Feb 6, 2016 · What Is a Madrasa? . 304 pages. $28.00 (hardcover), $27.99 (e-book). Alternating between personal memoir, history, and a qualitative study of Indian and Pakistani madrasas, Ebrahim Moosa's What Is a Madrasa? endeavors to address this politically fraught question, while also proposing ways to ensure the madrasa's future relevance in an ever ...
- Maryam Kashani
- 2016
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The “madrassa question” refers to the problem of how to critically view madrassas and their complicated multiple roles in Muslim cultural communities. This question is significant in light of madrassas’ assumed role in social reproduction of terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and “religious nationalist subjects” (Juergensmeyer 1993).
Published: August 2019; Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-2013-8 Published: April 2015; E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2014-5 Published: April 2015; E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8585-2 Published: April 2015; Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Buy this Book
Overall, this book is praiseworthy for its extensive use of textual sources, making it an excellent source for the study of intellectual discourse on women's mobility and visibility in Islam. What Is a Madrasa? By Ebrahim Moosa. University of North Carolina. Press, 2015. 304 pages. $28.00 (hardcover), $27.99 (e-book).
“Learning, teaching and moral training are and always have been at the core of Islamic Life,” Moosa suggests, and this book lays bare the ways in which this takes place (p. 9). This review was originally published in the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies (JEMS).
Jan 15, 2017 · Books. What is a Madrasa? Islamic Monitor. January 15, 2017. 140 views. 0 comments. What is a Madrasa? Author: Ebrahim Moosa. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (March 10, 2015) Explains the role of the madrasa in the cultural, intellectual and religious experience of Muslims.
