What is a Madrasa?
Author:   Ebrahim Moosa (Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   10 March 2015
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Author:   Ebrahim Moosa (Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.457kg
ISBN:  

9781474401746


ISBN 10:   1474401740
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   10 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration; PROLOGUE Inside Madrasas; PART I. LIVED EXPERIENCE; 1. A Novice; 2. Wake, Wash, Pray; 3. Becoming Scholars; PART II. HISTORY AND CONTEXTS; 4. Birth of the Contemporary Madrasa; 5. Texts and Authors; 6. From a Republic of Letters to a Republic of Piety; PART III. POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE; 7. Preserving the Prophet’s Legacy; 8. Believe, Learn, Know; PART IV. MADRASAS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT; 9. Talking about Madrasas; 10. The Future of Madrasas; 11. Letter to Policy Makers; 12. Letters to My Teachers; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

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Ebrahim Moosa is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, with appointments in the department of history and the Kroc Institute for International Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. The author of the prize-winning Ghazālī and the Poetics of Imagination (2005), he was named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar.

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