Islamic education in Africa : writing boards and blackboards /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Launay, Robert, 1949- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing boards and blackboards / Robert Launay
  • The classical paradigm
  • Styles of Islamic education: perspectives from Mali, Guinea, and the Gambia / Tal Tamari
  • Orality and the transmission of Qur'anic knowledge in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier
  • Islamic education and the intellectual pedigree of Al-Hajj Umar Falke / Muhammad Sani Umar
  • Institutional transformations
  • Divergent patterns of Islamic education in northern Mozambique: Qur'anic schools of Angoche / Liazzat J. K. Bonate
  • Colonial control, Nigerian agency, Arab outreach, and Islamic education in northern Nigeria, 1900-1966 / Alex Thurston
  • Muslim scholars, organic intellectuals, and the development of Islamic education in Zanzibar in the twentieth century / Roman Loimeier
  • The new Muslim public school in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Ashley E. Leinweber
  • Innovations and experiments
  • The Al-Azhar school network: a Murid experiment in Islamic modernism / Cheikh Anta Babou
  • Mwalim Bi Swafiya Muhashamy-Said: a pioneer of the integrated (madrasa) curriculum in Kenya and beyond / Ousseina D. Alidou
  • Changes in Islamic knowledge practices in twentieth-century Kenya / Rudiger Seesemann
  • Walking to the Makaranta: production, circulation, and transmission of Islamic learning in urban Niger / Abdoulaye Sounaye
  • Plural possibilities?
  • How (not) to read the Qur'an? Logics of Islamic education in Senegal and Ivory Coast / Robert Launay and Rudolph T. Ware III
  • New Muslim public figures in West Africa / Benjamin F. Soares
  • Collapsed pluralities: Islamic education, learning, and creativity in Niger / Noah Butler.