Madrasas in South Asia : teaching terror? /

Madrasas in South Asia : teaching terror? / edited by Jamal Malik. - London ; New York : Routhledge, 2008. - x, 190 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 4 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-183) and index.

Introduction / Jamal Malik -- Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas : the Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur / Usha Sanyal -- Making Muslims : identity and difference in Indian madrasas / Arshad Alam -- Madrasas : the potential for violence in Pakistan? / Tariq Rahman -- Pakistani madrasas and rural underdevelopment : an empirical study of Ahmedpur East / Saleem H. Ali -- Pakistan's recent experience in reforming Islamic education / Christopher Candland -- The gender of madrasa teaching / Nita Kumar -- Madrasa and Muslim identity on screen : nation, Islam and Bangladeshi art cinema on the global stage / Zakir Hossain Raju -- Power, purity and the vanguard : educational ideology of the Jama'at-i Islami of India / Irfan Ahmad -- In lieu of a conclusion / Jamal Malik.

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Islamic religious education--South Asia.
Madrasahs--South Asia.
Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.

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