Getting Started - Religion 399.04: Traditions of Learning in Islam

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Key Online Resources

Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought
Encyclopædia of Islam
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Encyclopædia of the Qur'ān
Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Index Islamicus

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Titles of Interest

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Brenner, Louis.: Controlling knowledge : religion, power, and schooling in a West African Muslim society.
Bloomington, IN, USA : Indiana University Press, c2001.
Divinity School Library BP64.M29 B73 2001
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Doumato, Eleanor Abdella. Starrett, Gregory.: Teaching Islam : textbooks and religion in the Middle East.
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Divinity School Library BP43.I48 T43 2007
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Fortna, Benjamin C.: Imperial classroom : Islam, the state, and education in the late Ottoman Empire.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Perkins/Bostock Library LA941.7 .F67 2002
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Lai, Ah Eng. Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman.: Secularism and spirituality : seeking integrated knowledge and success in madrasah education in Singapore.
Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library LC910.S56 S43 2006
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Makdisi, George.: The rise of the colleges: institutions of learning in Islam and the West.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
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Noor, Farish A. et al.: The madrasa in Asia : political activism and transnational linkages.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library LC910 .M33 2008
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Contents: Introduction: Behind the walls : re-appraising the role and importance of madrasas in the world today / Farish A. Noor, Yoginder Sikand and Martin van Bruinessen -- Voices for reform in the Indian madrasas / Yoginder Sikand -- Change and stagnation in Islamic education : the Dar al-Ulum of Deoband after the split in 1982 / Dietrich Reetz -- 'Insde and outside' in a girls' madrasa in New Delhi / Mareike Winkelmann -- Between Pakistan and Qom : Shii women's madrasas and new transnational networks / Mariam Abou Zahab -- The uncertain fate of Southeast Asian students in the madrasas of Pakistan / Farish A. Noor -- Muslim education in China : Chinese madrasas and linkages to Islamic schools abroad / Jackie Armijo -- From Pondok to Parliament : the role played by the religious schools of Malaysia in the development of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) / Farish A. Noor -- Traditionalist and Islamist pesantrens in contemporary Indonesia / Martin van Bruinessen -- The salafi madrasas of Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan.

Qasmi, Muhammadullah Khalili.: Madrasa education : its strength and weakness.
Mumbai : Markazul Ma'arif Education and Research Centre (MMERC) ; New Delhi : Manak Publications, 2005.
Divinity School Library LC910.M33 Q37 2005
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Sharma, K. C.: Encyclopaedia of Madrasa education in India.
New Delhi : Vista International Pub. House, 2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library LC910.I4 E53 2007 5 vols.
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Siddiqui, Mohd. Akhtar.: Empowerment of Muslims through education.
New Delhi : Institute of Objective Studies : Marketed by Genuine Publications & Media, 2004.
Perkins/Bostock Library LA1153.7 .S58 2004
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Sikkand, Yogindar.: Bastions of the believers : madrasas and Islamic education in India.
New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 2005.
Perkins/Bostock Library LC910.I4 S65 2005
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Winkelmann, Mareike Jule.: Reaching the minds of young Muslim women : girls' Madrasas in India.
Gurgaon : Hope India Publications, 2007.
Divinity School Library BP43.I43 W56 2007
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