Schooling Muslims in Natal : identity, state and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute / Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahed, Goolam H., 1961-

Contributor:

Waetjen, Thembisa, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orient Islamic Educational Institute.

Islamic education--South Africa--Durban.

Islamic education.

Muslims--Education--South Africa--Durban.

Muslims.

Islamic education--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

Islam--Study and teaching--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

Islam.

Muslims--Education--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

Muslims--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Ethnic identity.

East Indians--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--History.

East Indians.

History.

Ethnicity.

Muslims--Education.

Islam--Study and teaching.

South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.

South Africa--Durban.

Local Subjects:

Orient Islamic Educational Institute.

Physical Description:

xii, 457 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015.

Summary:

Traces the labors and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilizing 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.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Islam between empire and nation: Indian schooling, madressas and the state in Natal, c.1880-1927

Towards Aligarh in Africa: the founding of the Orient Islamic Educational Institute, 1927-43

Shifting grounds: the search for a school site in a divided city, 1943-8

Politics of "integrated" state-aided schooling, 1942-57

The making of Orient School, 1946-60

Deenyath: debating an Islamic syllabus for a state-aided school

Duniyanee: teaching and learning in the era of separate development, 1960-94

Reorientations: from state-aided to independent status, 1994-8

Conclusion: the Orient in a new century

Notes

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781869142926

1869142926

OCLC:

919311711