TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doumato,Eleanor Abdella
AU  - Starrett,Gregory
TI  - Teaching Islam: textbooks and religion in the Middle East 
SN  - 9788130908007 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 297.770956 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi.
PB  - Viva Books Private Limited
KW  - Islam
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Islamic religious education
KW  - Islamic education
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Islamic ethics
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index; Textbook Islam, nation building, and the question of violence / Gregory Starrett and  Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- Egypt : promoting tolerance, defending against Islamism / James A. Toronto and Muhammad S. Eissa -- Iran : a Shi'ite curriculum to serve the Islamic state / Golnar Mehran -- Jordan : prescription for obedience and conformity / Betty Anderson  -- Kuwait : striving to align Islam with Western values / Taghreed Alqudsi-Ghabra -- Oman : cultivating good citizens and religious virtue / Mandana E. Limbert -- The Palestinian national authority : the politics of writing and interpreting curricula. Genesis of a new curriculum / Nathan Brown ; A conflict of historical narratives / Seif Da'Na -- Saudi Arabia : from "Wahhabi" roots to contemporary revisionism / Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- Syria : secularism, Arabism, and Sunni orthodoxy / Joshua Landis -- Turkey : sanctifying a secular state / Ozlem Altan -- Textbook meanings and the power of interpretation /  Gregory Starrett -- Conclusion : tailor-made Islam / Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Gregory Starrett
ER  -