New Islamic schools : tradition, modernity, and class in urban Pakistan / Sanaa Riaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riaz, Sanaa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic education--Pakistan.

Islamic education.

Islamic religious education--Pakistan.

Islamic religious education.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Studies in Islamic education in Pakistan focus largely on orthodox religious seminaries, madrasas, and assume that all religious schools create the same religious subjectivity in the students, extremist in nature and averse to modern, secular, class, and everyday social concerns. How mainstream Muslims seek Islamic education that is compatible with their social, professional, and urban needs and how schooling choices are made in relation to state policies and local and global politics is rarely examined. In this groundbreaking study, Riaz provides a fresh perspective by focusing on mainstream middle- and upper-class urban Pakistanis and their patronization of a new, hybrid form of prestigious private Islamic schooling. This new form combines traditional madrasa education with modern, secular education. The first ethnographic study on these Islamic schools based on pre-primary and Grades 1-10 classrooms presents observations and interviews with entrepreneurs, administrators, teachers, students, and their parents across various income areas of Karachi, Riaz illuminates how the schools represent the response to the association of Pakistanis and Islamic education with terrorism and to the state's fluctuating education policies through the redefinition of Islamic education. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: understanding tradition

Modernity, and class in Islamic education

Situating the Islamic schooling trend in Pakistan

The educational system in Pakistan and the place of Islamic schooling

Examining diversity in Islamic schools

Knowledge at play

Towards a new approach to Islamic education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137382467

1137382465

OCLC:

862149329