Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa
Keiko Sakurai editor Masooda Bano editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:20th Mar '15
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Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities. In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the volume focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach, and whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.
Superbly edited, this authoritative book sheds light on state-university relations, institutional strategies, student-teacher relations, and the impact of returning graduates on their home communities of three leading Islamic universities with a global footprint. Shattering the myths surrounding Islamic education today, this book is vital reading for scholars, policy makers, and a general audience. * Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College *
This volume brings together scholars conducting field research in diverse parts of the Islamic world. Each chapter provides the reader with in-depth and up-to-date knowledge on Islamic learning in modern nation-state contexts... This volume is recommended to readers who would like to further their understanding about the recent developments in Islamic higher education and their graduates around the globe. -- Hatsuki Aishima * Die Welt des Islams *
Makes a serious contribution to ongoing debates about the changing nature of authority and the shifting discourse on Islam in the modern world through masterful case studies the examine how the global is negotiated in the local. * Sajjad H Rizvi, University of Exeter *
Based on a close study of three leading Muslim universities, their structures, ideational orientations, syllabi and alumni and their national and global outreach, this three-part volume allows readers to go beyond a rather singular focus on madrasah education. Benefiting from some fieldwork and by utilising institutional publications, this study of al-Madinah University (IUM) in Saudi Arabia, Qorn’s al-Mustafa (MIU) and Cairo’s al-Azhar, this volume offers a searchlight on their varying roles across the Muslim counties and communities.' -- Iftikhar H. Malik * The Muslim World Book Review *
ISBN: 9780748696857
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 492g
240 pages