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OverviewThe history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state. Schooling Muslims in Natal traces the labours and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilising merchant capital, transoceanic networks and informal political influence, established the Orient Islamic Educational Institute in 1943 to found schools and promote a secular curriculum that could be integrated with Islamic teaching. Through the story of their Durban flagship project – the Orient Islamic School – the book provides a fascinating account of the changing politics of religious identity, education and citizenship in South Africa. Across a century of changing political expectations, as the region transformed from colony to nation-state to multi-racial democracy, concerns for social mobility, civic inclusion and the survival of Islamic identity on the periphery of the Indian Ocean world were invested in the education of the young. From the late nineteenth century, Gujarati Muslim merchants settling in Natal built mosques and madressas; their progeny carried on the strong traditions of community patronage and civic leadership. Aligned to Gandhi’s Congress initiatives for Indian civic recognition, they worked across differences of political strategy, economic class, ethnicity and religious identity to champion modern education for a continually ghettoised diaspora. In common was the threat of a state that, long before the legal formation of apartheid, managed diversity in deference to white racial hysteria over `Indian penetration’ and an `Asiatic menace’. This is the story of confrontation, co-operation and compromise by an officially marginalised but still powerful set of `founding fathers’, and their centrality in histories of education, urban space and Muslim identity in this region of Africa. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Goolam Vahed , Thembisa WaetjenPublisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Imprint: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9781869142926ISBN 10: 1869142926 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 30 March 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGoolam Vahed is an Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal who writes on histories of migration, ethnicity and identity formation among Indian South Africans. Thembisa Waetjen is a Research Associate at the Durban University of Technology and writes on gender, politics and public culture in twentieth-century South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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