TY - BOOK AU - Riaz,Ali TI - Faithful education: madrassahs in South Asia SN - 9780813543451 (hbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 297.770954 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Madrasahs KW - South Asia KW - Islamic religious education N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-278) and index; Introduction: Why study madrassahs? understanding the importance of Islamic seminaries -- Madrassahs : little known, much discussed -- The genesis and the trajectories -- Pakistan : the madrassah as a mirror of society -- Bangladesh : a tale of two systems -- India : diversity and changes in madrassahs -- Reforming madrassahs -- Where to? ER -