Islamic education in Britain : new pluralist paradigms / Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott-Baumann, Alison, author.

Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Islam.

Islamic education--Great Britain.

Islamic education.

Islamic religious education--Great Britain.

Islamic religious education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Western world often fears many aspects of Islam, without the knowledge to move forward. On the other hand, there are sustained and complex debates within Islam about how to live in the modern world with faith. Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Contractor-Cheruvallil here propose solutions to both dilemmas, with a particular emphasis on the role of women.Challenging existing beliefs about Islam in Britain, this book offers a paradigm shift based on research conducted over 15 years. The educational needs within several groups of British Muslims were explored, resulting in the need to offer critical analysis of the provision for the study of classical Islamic Theology in Britain. Islamic Education in Britain responds to the dissatisfaction among many young Muslim men and women with the theological/secular split, and their desire for courses that provide combinations of these two strands of their lived experience as Muslim British citizens. Grounded in empirical research, the authors reach beyond the meta-narratives of secularization and orientalism to demonstrate the importance of the teaching and learning of classical Islamic studies for the promotion of reasoned dialogue, interfaith and intercultural understanding in pluralist British society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword / Tim Winter

Introduction: Islamic Education in Pluralist Britain

Chapter 1: British Islam and Islamic Education - Two Approaches

Chapter 2: Mapping Islamic Studies provision in Britain

Chapter 3: More than Imams: new narratives of Muslim faith leadership

Chapter 4: Arabic: the centrality of a living world language

Chapter 5: Muslim women's voices, feminisms and theologies

Chapter 6: Universities and Muslim colleges: 'Collaborative Partnerships' in Higher Education

Conclusion: New paradigms for Islam in education

Afterword / Shuruq Naguib

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472581242

1472581245

9781474219761

1474219764

9781472581235

1472581237

OCLC:

910878388