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Madrasa in Asia: political activism and transnational linkages
Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of educat…
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- 9789048501380
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- 303 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies
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- 370.95 MAD m
Islam on the move : the Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama't, arguably the world's largest Islamic missionary movement, locates it in the larger perspective of global Islam and developments in the Muslim s…
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- 9789089644398
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- 255p. : ill.
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- 297.0959 NOO i
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