Islamic education in Africa :

Islamic education in Africa : writing boards and blackboards / edited by Robert Launay. - 1 online resource

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

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Islamic religious education--History.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Islamic education--History.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Muslims--Education--History.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Education--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Colonial influence.
Education.
Islamic education.
Islamic religious education.
Muslims--Education.
RELIGION / Islam / General


Africa, Sub-Saharan--Colonial influence.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.


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