Female Islamic education movements : the re-democratization of Islamic knowledge / Masooda Bano, University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bano, Masooda, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic modernism.

Islamic renewal.

Muslim women--Education.

Muslim women.

Sex differences in education.

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Since the 1970s, movements aimed at giving Muslim women access to the serious study of Islamic texts have emerged across the world. In this book, Masooda Bano argues that the creative spirit that marked the rise and consolidation of Islam, whereby Islam inspired serious intellectual engagement to create optimal societal institutions, can be found within these education movements. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Pakistan, northern Nigeria and Syria, Bano questions the restricted notion of agency associated with these movements, exploring the educational networks which have attracted educated, professional and culturally progressive Muslim women to textual study, thus helping to reverse the most damaging legacy of colonial rule in Muslim societies: the isolation of modern and Islamic knowledge. With its comparative approach, this will appeal to those studying and researching the role of women across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, as well as the wider Muslim world.

Contents:

Understanding knowledge creation: a re-reading of female

Islamic education movements

The power of dispersed knowledge

Incentivising creative outcomes: historical patterns

Knowledge production and student profiles

Incentivising the mixing of knowledge

Institutional shifts: facilitating emergence

Institutional shifts: facilitating expansion

Institutional shifts: the rise of western feminism

Incentivising creative outcomes: looking forward.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-10011-2

1-108-10251-4

1-108-10291-3

1-108-10331-6

1-108-10492-4

1-316-98672-1

1-108-10372-3